The phrase "a retrogressive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is moving backward or reverting to an earlier state, often in a negative context.
Example: "The new policy is seen as a retrogressive step for social progress."
Alternatives: "a regressive" or "a backward".
Is it a retrogressive dinosaur in a democratised world of dining out?
He further concluded that the higher rate of reproduction among blacks had a retrogressive effect on evolution.
Matthew Passion," redemption comes through the embrace of suffering -- a retrogressive illusion of a different historical moment, Adorno might say.
"The state has failed to satisfy its burden of proving that those changes will not have a retrogressive effect on minority votes," the ruling said.
If the World Trade Center catastrophe does help shift the city's builders from a retrogressive outlook, this is the tradition they will want to build upon.
Sam Uretsky, Wantagh N.Y.: The importance of developing alternative energy sources can't be overstated, but is a gasoline tax — ultimately a retrogressive tax — the best answer?
It's a bizarrely retrogressive characterisation at a time when fairy-tale heroines are invariably described as "feisty" and "spirited".
Coupling between a massive retrogressive flank failure and a large explosive eruption represents a new type of volcano-tectonic event on oceanic shield volcanoes and a new hazard scenario.
The Hines Creek landslide occurred between June 9th and June 25th , 1990(based on Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper bracketing dates) and was a reactivated, retrogressive earth slide, with a rupture surface in glacial sediment (LTA4).
A bulbous statue of a cartoon giantess by Niki de Saint Phalle, meanwhile, incarnates a zany, retrogressive Great Mother of countercultural revolution.
Is this an incongruously retrogressive choice for a woman who recently reaffirmed her feminist credentials?
