📖 Definitions of "Regressed"
verb
- 1
To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- 2
To move from east to west.
- 3
To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
"When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y."
adjective
- 1
That has been subject to regression
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Regressed"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| regressionnoun | (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable. |
| retrogressverb | (intransitive) To return to an earlier, simpler or worse condition; to regress. |
| retrogressionnoun | A deterioration or decline to a previous state. |
| retroversionnoun | (medicine) A backward-tilting of an anatomical strucure (e.g. the uterus). |
| revertverb | To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. |
| reversionnoun | The action of returning to a former condition or practice. |
| retrogradeverb | Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating. |
| turn backverb | (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps. |
| relapseverb | (intransitive, informal, specifically) To return to a vice, especially self-harm or alcoholism, failing to maintain abstinence. |
| recidivateverb | (intransitive) To relapse into a previous pattern of behavior, especially to commit new offenses after having been punished or sanctioned for earlier ones. |
| returnverb | (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person). |
| lapseverb | To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid. |
| fall backverb | To retreat. |
| reasoning backwardnoun | the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence |
| fallennoun | Having dropped by the force of gravity. |
| diminished | lessened, reduced |
| dropped | allowed to drop or fall. |
| shrunk | shrunken |
| fellverb | (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree. |
| abated | (poetry) humbled. |
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