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.
Definitions
- adjective. Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
- adjective. Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive.
- adjective. Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
- intransitive verb. To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.
- intransitive verb. Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.
- verb. get worse or fall back to a previous 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. 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
Synonyms
regress, retrogress, rehash, retreat, retral, retrogressive
Common word forms
retrograded, retrogrades, retrogradely, retrograding
Words from these letters
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