Definitions For Regress

noun

  • Returning to a former state
  • The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
  • To return to an earlier and usually worse or less developed condition or state

verb

  • Go back to bad behavior
  • Get worse or fall back to a previous condition
  • Go back to a previous state
  • Go back to a statistical means

Is Regresses a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
11

The word Regress is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Regress in a Sentence

  • The patient is regressing to a childlike state.
  • In extreme circumstances, people sometimes regress to the behavior they exhibited in childhood

Synonyms for Regress

Antonyms for Regresses

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