Retrograde
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Retrograde
Adjective
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing. Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse. Having a passage of music played backwards.
- Having a passage of music played backwards.
Noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion. The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
- One who reneges on an agreement, or switches loyalties; a rebel, a renegade.
- The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
Verb
- To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion. To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature. To cause (someone or something) to revert to an inferior or less developed state.
- To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- To cause (someone or something) to revert to an inferior or less developed state.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress. Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement. Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion. To retreat or withdraw from a position. To move backwards; to recede. Of the telling of an incident, etc.: to move to an earlier time.
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