Retrograde

Definitions: Retrograde

Retrograde

Adjective

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.

2. Of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma.

3. Going from better to worse.

4. Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.

Verb

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".

4. Go back over; "retrograde arguments".

5. Get worse; fall back to a previous or worse condition.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "retrograde" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

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Synonyms: Retrograde

Deterioration

Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out of the frying pan into the fire.

At a low ebb, in a bad way, on one's last legs; undermined, deciduous; nodding to its fall; (destruction); tottering;. (dangerous) : past cure; (hopeless); fatigued; retrograde; (retrogressive); deleterious.

Regression

Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.

Counter motion, retrograde motion, backward movement, motion in reverse, counter movement, counter march; veering, tergiversation, recidivation, backsliding, fall; deterioration; recidivism, recidivity.

Adjective: receding; Verb: retrograde, retrogressive; regressive, refluent, reflex, recidivous, resilient; crab-like; balky; reactionary.

Relapse

Verb: relapse, lapse; fall back, slide back, sink back; return; retrograde; recidivate; fall off again.

Crosswords: Retrograde

Books

• A New Look at Mercury Retrograde (reference)

• Esoteric Astrology, Part XI Retrograde Planets (reference)

• Mercury Retrograde (reference)

• Mercury Retrograde and Other Stories by Women (reference)

• Retrograde Planets: Traversing the Inner Landscape (Contemporary Astrology) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Retrograde (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Although it may take some time to get used to retrograde ejaculation, you should eventually find sex as pleasurable after surgery as before. (references)

Using ultrasonic imaging, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), and CAT scans, a doctor can see problems indicating chronic pancreatitis. (references)

They report particular difficulties for events that occurred on average 6 months before ECT (retrograde amnesia) and on average 2 months after the treatment (anterograde amnesia). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "retrograde": endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ♦ retrograde amnesia ♦ retrograde conduction ♦ Retrograde Degeneration ♦ retrograde development ♦ retrograde erosion ♦ retrograde motion ♦ retrograde step ♦ retrograde VA conduction ♦ retrograde ventriculoatrial conduction. Additional references.

Albanian

reaksionar (reactionary), tërhiqem (back away, back out of, backpedal, backslide, climb down, deny, depart, draw away, draw back, fall back, give ground, rebound, recede, recoil, retire, shrink, withdraw), shkoj prapa (retrogress), prapavajtës (backward, recessive, regressive, retrogressive), prapanik (antiquated, backward), keqësohem (fall away, fall off, retrogress, worsen). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منتكس (deteriorating, relapsing), ‏متقهقر (recessive, regressive), ‏متراجع (recessive, retreating), ‏معارض للتقدم, ‏نكص (recoil, regress, turn back, withdraw), ‏ناكص (recessive, regressive), ‏تقهقري, ‏تقهقر (back away, fall back, fall behind, give ground, go on before, hold down, lose ground, recede, recession, retire, retreat, retreating, retrogression, withdraw), ‏تخلف (be in arrears, be retarded, default, drag, drop behind, fall behind, go to sleep, go under, lag, linger, loiter, lurk, retardation, tardiness), ‏عكسي (adverse, counter, inverse, reciprocal, reverse), ‏خفض السرعة, ‏إنحط (decay, decline, degenerate, degrade, ebb), ‏إنتكاسي, ‏رجعي (atavistic, die hard, fusty, reactionary, reactive, retroactive). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ретрограден, регресирам (regress, revert), влошаващ се (downward, ingravescent), влошавам се (decay, decline), отстъпателен (of retreat, retreating), оттеглям се (adjourn, back, back away, disengage, draw back, draw off, draw out, fall back, fall off, give back, give way to, pull back, recede, repair, retire, retreat, retrocede, run out, scuttle, seclude, step down, withdraw), отивам в обратна посока, обърнат назад (reflective, retroflex, retrorse, retrospective), обратен (back, backward, contrary, converse, counter, cross, inverse, inversive, obverse, opposite, reactive, reciprocal, return, reverse, wrong), насочен назад, назадничав човек (slowcoach), назадничав (backward), движа се назад (regress), дегенерирам (degrade), дегенерирал човек. (various references)

Chinese 

后退 (Backlash, recede, Receded, receding, recession). (various references)

Czech

retrográdní, zpìtný (refluent, regressive, reverse), odvrácený. (various references)

Danish

retrograd. (various references)

Dutch

achterwaarts (aback, backward, backwards). (various references)

Esperanto

retroira (backward). (various references)

Farsi 

پس رفتن (Recede, Regress, Retire, Retrogress), قفاءی (Mauve), قهقهراءی , تنزل کننده , انحطاطدهنده , بقهقرارفتن (Retrogress), برگشت دهنده . (various references)

Finnish

takautuva. (various references)

French

rétrograder (reduce, regress), rétrograde (recessive, regressive), rétrograde, mouvement rétrograde. (various references)

German

rückläufig (declining, downward, dropping, falling, regressive, retrogressive, reverse). (various references)

Greek 

παλινδρομικόσ (alternating, reciprocating, retrogressive), οπισθοδρομώ (recoil, regress, retreat, retrogress, throw back), οπισθοδρομικόσ (backward, regressive, unprogressive). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפגר (laggard, retarded, slow, tardy), מדרדר (pejorative), נחשל (backward, borderline, primitive, underdeveloped), נסוג (backward, regressive, retreating). (various references)

Hungarian

retrográd, maradi (backward, behindhand, hidebound, hide-bound, obscurantist, philistine, stick in the mud), haladásellenes, hátrafelé irányuló (backward), hátrafelé haladó. (various references)

Italian

retrogrado (hidebound). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

逆行 (adverse, go backward). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎゃっこう (adverse, backlighting, go backward). (various references)

Pig Latin

etrograderay

Portuguese

retrogradar (regress), retroceder (fall back on, flinch, recede, regress, retreat, retrogress, revert, run back, set back, shrink, subside), retrógrado (backward, retrogressive, stick in the mud), retrógrado, sofrer reversão, mover-se para trás (back), inverso (backward, converse, equivalent, inversely, inverter, reciprocal, reverse, reversed), em declínio, dirigido para trás, degenerar (degenerate, derogate, deteriorate, retrogress, run wild). (various references)

Romanian

retrograd (backward, retrogressive), reacţionar (reactionary, retrogressive, rightist), contrar (adverse, against, antipathic, bad, contrarily, contrary, converse, counter, foul, opponent, opposed, opposite, reverse). (various references)

Russian 

ретроград (hunker), регрессировать (regress, retrogress), реакционный (reactionary, right-wing), отступать (back away, back down, backtrack, blench, change one's base, digress, draw back, fall back, fell back, flinch, give ground, give grounds, lose ground, move back, recede, retire, retrogress, stand back, step back), отступательный, двигаться назад, дегенерирующий. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

retrogradan, unazadan, kretati se unazad, kretanje unazad. (various references)

Spanish

retrógrado (backward, reactionary, reactionist, retrogressive). (various references)

Swedish

tillbakariktad, reaktionär (die hard, reactionary). (various references)

Turkish

tersine giden, ters yönde dönmek (retrogress, reverse), kötüleşmek (deteriorate, get worse, go down, retrogress, sink, worsen), kötüleşen (ingravescent), geriye doğru giden (back, regressive), gerilemek (degrade, deteriorate, draw back, drop back, drop behind, drop off, fall back, lose ground, recede, redound, regress, remount, retreat, slip, stand back, turn back, worsen), gerici (obscurant, obscurantist, puritanical, reactionary, retrogressive, stick in the mud, unprogressive), geri gitmek (go back, recede, regress, repass, retrocede), dejenere olmak (degenerate), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset). (various references)

Ukranian 

рухатися назад (retrogress), розташований у зворотному порядку, ретроградний, ретроград (hunker, slowcoach), регресувати (regress, retrogress), відступати (back, back down, backtrack, blench, crawfish, deviate, digress, draw back, draw off, drop back, ebb, fall back, flinch, give ground, go back, recede, retreat, shy, stand away, stand back, walk backward), зворотний рух (regress, retrogression). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người suy đồi (retrogressive), người lạc hậu khuynh hướng lạc hậu (retrogressive). (various references)

retrogradus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "retrograde": retrograded, retrogradely, retrogrades. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Retrograde" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: orthograde, retrogade, retrogradely. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: derogate, garroted, garroter, gartered, regrated, retarder.

-3 letters: garoted, garrote, goateed, greater, orderer, regrade, regrate, reorder, retread, treader.

-4 letters: adorer, agreed, darter, dearer, derate, dogear, dotage, dragee, ergate, garote, garred, garret, garter, geared, goatee, grader, grated, grater, orated, orgeat, reader, reared, rearer, redate, redear, regard, regear, regret, reread, retard, retear, retore, roared, roarer, tarred.

+1 letter: retrograded, retrogrades.

+2 letters: retrogradely.

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