Thesaurus: retrograde

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1. a. Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
2. a. Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive.
3. a. Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
4. v. i. To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.
5. v. i. Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.
6. adj. moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or — for planets — around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
7. adj. of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
8. adj. going from better to worse
9. adj. moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
10. v. move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
11. v. move in a direction contrary to the usual one
12. v. move back