RETROGRADE
\ɹˌɛtɹə͡ʊɡɹˈe͡ɪd], \ɹˌɛtɹəʊɡɹˈeɪd], \ɹ_ˌɛ_t_ɹ_əʊ_ɡ_ɹ_ˈeɪ_d]\
Definitions of RETROGRADE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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move back; "The glacier retrogrades"
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of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
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move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets"
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moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
By Princeton University
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move back; "The glacier retrogrades"
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of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
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(astronomy) moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
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move in a direction contrary to the usual one; of stars and planets
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
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Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
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To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.
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Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.
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Retrogression.
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Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; - opposed to progressive.
By Oddity Software
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Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
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Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
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To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.
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Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.
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Retrogression.
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Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; - opposed to progressive.
By Noah Webster.
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Retrogression.
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RETROGRADATION.
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To move backward; recede; deteriorate.
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Going backward; declining.
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Retrogradely.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Going or moving backward; going from a better to a worse state or character; as, retrograde ideas.
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To go or appear to go backward; to go from better to worse.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Going backward: falling from better to worse: (biology) becoming less highly organized.
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To go backwards.
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RETROGRADATION.
By Daniel Lyons
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Retrograde.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
