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Definitions: RETROGRADATION |
RETROGRADATIONNoun1. The state of being retrograde; decline. 2. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. |
Date "RETROGRADATION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Noun: deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb; recession; retrogradation; decrease. |
Relapse | Noun: relapse, lapse; falling back; Verb: retrogradation; (retrogression); deterioration. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "RETROGRADATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تدهور (break down, breakdown, crumble, decadence, decay, deteriorate, deterioration, drop, go to pot, go to the bad, impairment, run to seed, sour, suffer, tumble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 逆反. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fosfatfiksering, fosfatbinding. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | fosfaatfixatie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پس روی (Regress), قفاروی , سیرقهقهراءی , انحطاط (Chute, Decadence, Decline, Degeneration, Downfall, Downhill, Slough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ravinteen pidättyminen kasveille käyttökelvottomaan muotoon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rétrogradation (reduction in rank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Retrogradation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μετατροπή του "ευκόλως" σε "δυσκόλως" κινητοποιήσιμο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kemunduran (decadence, declension, decline, degeneration, regression, slowdown). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 역행 (Backing, regression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etrogradationray retrogradação (regress). (various references) retrogradare (abasement, demoting, reduction, relegation), retrogradaţie, degenerare (degeneracy, degeneration, degradation, deterioration, retrogression), decadenţã (decadence, decadency, decay, decline). (various references) retrogradación (retrogression). (various references) fosfatfixering, fosfatbindning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "RETROGRADATION": retrogradations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "RETROGRADATION" (pronounced 'Re`tro*gra*da"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-i-n-o-o-r-r-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: interrogator. | |
-3 letters: retardation. | |
-4 letters: arrogation, denigrator, derogation, integrator, negotiator. | |
-5 letters: adoration, aragonite, arraigned, arrogated, attainder, deratting, detonator, garrotted, gradation, indagator, rattooned, regardant, retardant, retarding, retorting, tragedian. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-g-i-n-o-o-r-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: retrogradations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 54 52 4F 47 52 41 44 41 54 49 4F 4E |
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