Retrograde describes moving in a backwards or reverse direction. If you're suddenly told that you can no longer vote because you're a woman, that's a retrograde affront to your civil rights. Start protesting!
Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
Verb
get worse; fall back to a previous or worse condition
Verb
go back over; "retrograde arguments"
Verb
move back; "The glacier retrogrades"
Verb
move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets"
Verb
move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
Adjective
of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
Adjective S.
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 S.
going from better to worse
a.
Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the
succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
a.
Tending or moving backward; having a backward course;
contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive.
a.
Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a
retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
v. i.
To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear
to move, backward, as a planet.
v. i.
Hence, to decline from a better to a worse
condition, as in morals or intelligence.
Retrograde
And if he be in the west side in that condition, then is he retrograde.2.
It is most retrograde to our desire.3.
Retrograde
Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.
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