Dictionary Entry
retrograde
retrograde is a 10-letter English word with 14 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
- 2adjective
Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive.
- 3adjective
Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
- 4intransitive verb
To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.
- 5intransitive verb
Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.
- 6verb
get worse or fall back to a previous condition
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- 7verb
go back over
"retrograde arguments"
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- 8verb
move back
"The glacier retrogrades"
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- 9verb
move in a direction contrary to the usual one
"retrograding planets"
- 10verb
move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
- 11adjective
of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
- 12adjective
moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
Synonyms
- 13adjective
moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
- 14adjective
going from better to worse
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