: passing from a higher to a lower level of organization
retrogressive evolution
retrogressivelyadverb
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebRepresentation can help change this retrogressive thinking. Elissa Strauss, CNN, 3 Dec. 2020 Those against Brexit portrayed it as historically retrogressive, taking the country out of the collective European project while imperiling access to the European marketplace — the destination for nearly half of the nation’s exports. Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2019 But Tan appears to be responding to the retrogressive entrenchment of hard-line conservative values and intolerance in pockets of American life today. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2018