SkyfireDict

retrograde   (TTS Sound)

The verb retrograde has 5 senses

• retrograde -- (move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies)


• retrograde -- (move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets")


• retrograde, retreat -- (move back; "The glacier retrogrades")


• retrograde, rehash, hash over -- (go back over; "retrograde arguments")


• regress, retrograde, retrogress -- (get worse or fall back to a previous condition)

The adj retrograde has 4 senses

• retrograde -- (moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth)


• retrograde -- (of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma)


• retrograde, retrogressive -- (going from better to worse)


• retral, retrograde -- (moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction)