Definitions from Wiktionary (retrograde)
▸ 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.
▸ Also see retrograde
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▸ 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.
▸ Also see retrograde
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