Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun reverting

1 sense of reverting

Sense 1
backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting -- (a failure to maintain a higher state)
       => failure -- (an act that fails; "his failure to pass the test")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb revert

2 senses of revert

Sense 1
revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back -- (go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules")
       => change by reversal, turn, reverse -- (change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern")

Sense 2
revert -- (undergo reversion, as in a mutation)
       => mutate -- (undergo mutation; "cells mutate")

Antonyms of adj reverting

1 sense of reverting

Sense 1
returning, reverting -- (tending to return to an earlier state)

INDIRECT (VIA regressive) -> progressive -- (favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools")

Similarity of adj reverting

1 sense of reverting

Sense 1
returning, reverting -- (tending to return to an earlier state)
       => regressive (vs. progressive) -- (opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state)