Rhymes for REGRESSIVE

• making a strong or vivid impression

• producing a strong effect

• favoring or promoting progress

• (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases

• a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

• a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

• favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)

• gradually advancing in extent

• (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position

• advancing in severity

• weighing heavily on the senses or spirit

• marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior

• performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion

• characterized by expression

• someone suffering psychological depression

• restrictive of action

• beyond normal limits

• unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings

• serving to express or indicate possession

• the case expressing ownership

• desirous of owning

• having or showing a desire to control or dominate

• not capable of impressing

• of or pertaining to a recession

• (of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical

• an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical

• a person who has obsessions

• characterized by or constituting an obsession

• in regular succession without gaps

• a substance that abrades or wears down

• causing abrasion

• sharply disagreeable; rigorous

• tending to intrude (especially upon privacy)

• of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock

• thrusting inward

• wearing away by friction

• of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action

• sticking out; protruding

• undesirably noticeable

• high in price or charging high prices

• not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable

• abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule

• intended or having the power to induce action or belief

• for the purpose of attack rather than defense

• causing anger or annoyance

• morally offensive

• unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses

• the action of attacking an enemy

• violating or tending to violate or offend against

• causing or able to cause nausea

• intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack

• an attitude of defensiveness

• attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing

• excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority

• a news report that is reported first by one news organization

• not divided or shared with others

• not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective

• serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst

• a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck

• liable to lead to sudden change or violence

• sudden and loud

• imposing in size or bulk or solidity

• being the same substance throughout

• imposing in scale or scope or degree or power

• consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter

• expressing offensive reproach

• characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment

• inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination

• abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant

• a radical supporter of political or social revolution

• in opposition to a civil authority or government

• tending to adhere

• a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together

• a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things

• caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion

• strongly motivated to succeed

• forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question

• determining or having the power to determine an outcome

• characterized by decision and firmness

• unmistakable

• forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis

• difficult to describe

• skillful at eluding capture

• difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor

• large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity

• broad in scope or content

• proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus

• without forethought

• having the power of driving or impelling

• determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

• characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation

• including much or everything; and especially including stated limits

• tending to give force or emphasis

• of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor

• a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies

• characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form

• relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision

• marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue

• involving invasion or aggressive attack

• gradually intrusive without right or permission

• producing a sizeable profit

• a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

• consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story

• lacking in energy or will

• expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb

• the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb

• peacefully resistant in response to injustice

• deeply or seriously thoughtful

• showing pensive sadness

• spreading or spread throughout

• withdrawn from society; seeking solitude

• providing privacy or seclusion

• possessing the ability to repel

• offensive to the mind

• so extremely ugly as to be terrifying

• containing or using responses; alternating

• readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion

• reacting to a stimulus

• inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information

• of or relating to or responsible for administration

• quick to understand

• mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc

• in fear or dread of possible evil or harm