retrograde

adjective

  1. 1

    of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma

  2. 2

    moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction

  3. 3

    moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth

  4. 4

    going from better to worse

verb

  1. 1

    get worse or fall back to a previous condition

  2. 2

    go back over

    retrograde arguments

  3. 3

    move back

    The glacier retrogrades

  4. 4

    move in a direction contrary to the usual one

    retrograding planets

  5. 5

    move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies

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