English dictionary
retrograde
adjectiveAudio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
adjective
- moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
adjective
- moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or — for planets — around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
adjective
- going from better to worse
verb
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
verb
- go back over
verb
- move back
verb
- move in a direction contrary to the usual one
verb
- move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
Example sentences
retrograde arguments
The glacier retrogrades
retrograding planets