Antonyms for progression
prəˈgrɛʃ ənpro·gres·sion

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1. progressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   sequence

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1. progression

   Progress (Latin pro, forward, gradior, go) is a moving onward or forward, whether in space or in the mental or moral realm, and may be either mechanical, individual, or social. Attainment, development, and proficiency are more absolute than the other words of the group, denoting some point of advantage or of comparative perfection reached by forward or onward movement; we speak of attainments in virtue or scholarship, proficiency in music or languages, the development of new powers or organs; proficiency includes the idea of skill. Advance may denote either a forward movement or the point gained by forward movement, but always relatively with reference to the point from which the movement started; as, this is a great advance. Advance admits the possibility of retreat; progress (Latin progredi, to walk forward) is steady and constant forward movement, admitting of pause, but not of retreat; advance suggests more clearly a point to be reached, while progress lays the emphasis upon the forward movement; we may speak of slow or rapid progress, but more naturally of swift advance. Progress is more frequently used of abstractions; as, the progress of ideas; progression fixes the attention chiefly upon the act of moving forward. In a thing good in itself all advance or progress is improvement; there is a growing tendency to restrict the words to this favorable sense, using increase indifferently of good or evil; one may say without limitation, "I am an advocate of progress."

   Antonyms:
   check, decline, delay, falling back, falling off, relapse, retrogression, stay, stop, stoppage

   Synonyms:
   advance, advancement, attainment, development, growth, improvement, increase, proficiency, progress

   Preposition:
   The progress of truth; progress in virtue; toward perfection; from a lower to a higher state.

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1. progression

   Antonyms:
   inversion, diminution

   Synonyms:
   series, gradation, rate

Matched Categories

1. • Change Of Location
   • Series

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.7 / 3 votes

1. progression, patterned advancenoun

   a series with a definite pattern of advance

   Synonyms:
   progress, advancement, procession, advance, onward motion, patterned advance, forward motion

2. progress, progression, advancenoun

   a movement forward

   "he listened for the progress of the troops"

   Synonyms:
   progress, advancement, procession, advance, feeler, improvement, betterment, onward motion, approach, cash advance, overture, patterned advance, rise, forward motion

3. progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motionnoun

   the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

   Synonyms:
   rise, forward motion, emanation, cash advance, progress, feeler, patterned advance, improvement, advancement, approach, furtherance, advance, procession, betterment, overture, onward motion, promotion

How to use progression in a sentence?

1. Salvador Jorgensen:

   Either they are eating something different or this is related in some way to their mating, what we’ve learned through the progression of our research is that this mid-water layer is extremely important for white sharks.

2. Allison Babiuch:

   It doesn’t stop the progression of myopia, but it slows the progression.

3. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble:

   If the states agree, we'll eliminate 'cold progression'.

4. Julian Bailes:

   In the military, it seems it would be vitally important to know who has been exposed to this, and then be able to identify, mark, follow the progression of brain degeneration from blast injury, and to know who's at risk and maybe who needs to be pulled out of harm's way permanently.

5. Darrell Bevell:

   You can look around the league, and I ’ll take our guy every day in the rookie quarterbacks and how they’re doing, it’s a different game for them when they come into the NFL. Trevor’s progression has been great. He’s doing a great job. He works his tail off. His play is getting better and better.

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