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retrograde

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Retrograde  \Re"tro*grade\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Retrograded};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Retrograding}.]  [L.  retrogradare  retrogradi: 
  cf  F.  r['e]trograder.] 
  1.  To  go  in  a  retrograde  direction;  to  move  or  appear  to 
  move  backward,  as  a  planet. 
 
  2.  Hence  to  decline  from  a  better  to  a  worse  condition,  as 
  in  morals  or  intelligence. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Retrograde  \Re"tro*grade\,  a.  [L.  retrogradus  from  retrogradi, 
  retrogressus  to  retrograde;  retro  back  +  gradi  to  step:  cf 
  F.  r['e]trograde.  See  {Grade}.] 
  1.  (Astron.)  Apparently  moving  backward,  and  contrary  to  the 
  succession  of  the  signs,  that  is  from  east  to  west,  as  a 
  planet.  --Hutton. 
 
  And  if  he  be  in  the  west  side  in  that  condition, 
  then  is  he  retrograde.  --Chaucer. 
 
  2.  Tending  or  moving  backward;  having  a  backward  course; 
  contrary;  as  a  retrograde  motion;  --  opposed  to 
  {progressive}.  ``Progressive  and  not  retrograde.'' 
  --Bacon. 
 
  It  is  most  retrograde  to  our  desire.  --Shak. 
 
  3.  Declining  from  a  better  to  a  worse  state;  as  a  retrograde 
  people;  retrograde  ideas,  morals,  etc  --Bacon. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  retrograde 
  adj  1:  (astronomy)  moving  from  east  to  west  on  the  celestial 
  sphere;  or--for  planets--around  the  sun  in  a  direction 
  opposite  to  that  of  the  Earth  [ant:  {direct}] 
  2:  of  amnesia;  affecting  time  immediately  preceding  trauma 
  [ant:  {anterograde}] 
  3:  going  from  better  to  worse  [syn:  {declining},  {deteriorating}, 
  {failing},  {regressing},  {retrogressive}] 
  4:  moving  or  directed  or  tending  in  a  backward  direction  or 
  contrary  to  a  previous  direction  [syn:  {retral}] 
  v  1:  move  backward  in  an  orbit,  of  celestial  bodies 
  2:  move  in  a  direction  contrary  to  the  usual  one  of  stars  and 
  planets 
  3:  move  back  "The  glacier  retrogrades"  [syn:  {retreat}] 
  4:  go  back  over  "retrograde  arguments"  [syn:  {rehash}] 
  5:  get  worse;  fall  back  to  a  previous  or  worse  condition  [syn: 
  {regress},  {retrogress}]  [ant:  {progress}]




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