Hyphenation of regressive

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word regressive? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

re-gres-sive

Definitions of regressive:

1.	(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases
2.	Opposing progress Returning to a former less advanced state

Synonyms of regressive:

adj	regressive, flat, fixed, graduated
adj	regressive, atavistic, throwback, retrograde, retrogressive, returning, reverting, unmodernized, unmodernised, backward

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.