Usually means: Movement opposite to usual direction.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word retrograde:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. retrograde: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. retrograde: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. retrograde: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. retrograde: Collins English Dictionary
  5. retrograde: Vocabulary.com
  6. Retrograde, retrograde: Wordnik
  7. retrograde: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. retrograde: Wiktionary
  9. retrograde: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. retrograde: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. retrograde: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. retrograde: Dictionary.com
  13. retrograde: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Retrograde (album), Retrograde (film), Retrograde (music), Retrograde (song), Retrograde: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Retrograde: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. retrograde: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. retrograde: Rhymezone
  18. retrograde, rtrograde: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. retrograde: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. retrograde: Free Dictionary
  21. retrograde: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. retrograde: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. retrograde: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Retrograde (disambiguation), retrograde: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Retrograde (disambiguation), retrograde: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. Retrograde (disambiguation), retrograde: Medical dictionary
  5. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrograde: A Word A Day

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  2. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Retrograde: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. retrograde: Nine Planets Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Retrograde: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See retrograded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
adjective:  Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
adjective:  (zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
adjective:  Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
adjective:  (music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
adjective:  Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
adjective:  (archaic)
adjective:  Involving a return to or a retracing of a previous course of travel.
adjective:  Counterproductive to a desired outcome; contradictory, contrary.
adjective:  (astronomy)
adjective:  Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
adjective:  (also astrology, often postpositive) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
adjective:  (geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
adjective:  (medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
adjective:  (poetry, archaic) Of verse: reading the same forwards or backwards; palindromic.
adverb:  In a reverse direction; backwards.
noun:  A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
noun:  (astrology) The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
noun:  One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
noun:  (archaic) One who reneges on an agreement, or switches loyalties; a rebel, a renegade.
noun:  (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
verb:  (geology) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
verb:  (obsolete) To cause (someone or something) to revert to an inferior or less developed state.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
verb:  (astrology, astronomy) Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
verb:  (geography) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
verb:  (military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  To move backwards; to recede.
verb:  Of the telling of an incident, etc.: to move to an earlier time.

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