retrograde

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adjective

Directed or facing toward the back or rear: backward, retrogressive. See precede/follow.

verb

1. To move in a reverse direction: back, backpedal, backtrack, fall back, retreat, retrocede, retrogress. Idioms: retrace one's steps. See forward/backward.
2. To move back or away from a point, limit, or mark: ebb, recede, retract, retreat, retrocede, retrogress. See approach/retreat.
3. To become lower in quality, character, or condition: atrophy, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, sink, worsen. Idioms: go bad, go to pot, go to seed, go to the dogs. See better/worse.

adj

Definition: backward
Antonyms: forward

adj

Definition: for the worse
Antonyms: forward-looking, positive

(Lat. cancrizans : ‘crab-like’).

A succession of notes played backwards. It has always been regarded as an esoteric way of handling a musical structure and one that does not invite the listener's appreciation. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance it was applied to cantus firmi; it is important in Schoenberg's system of composition with 12 notes, in which 12-note rows may be used in retrograde and retrograde inversion.

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IN BRIEF: To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. — Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

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the spontaneous irreversible change of a liquid colloidal solution to an insoluble or gelled state. The term is used especially of aqueous amylose solutions in which microcrystalline precipitates of aligned, hydrogen-bonded amylose molecules occur on standing.

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Going backward; retracting a former course; catabolic.

• r. pyelography — radiography of the kidney after introduction of contrast medium through the ureter.

v

To move backward, degenerate, or return to an earlier state or worse condition.

For a list of words related to retrograde, see:

• Space Exploration and Rocketry - retrograde: orbit of satellite in westerly direction, opposite easterly motion of earthbound observer
• Dimensions and Directions - retrograde: (adj) directed or moving backward, against the general direction

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See words rhyming with "retrograde."

  See crossword solutions for the clue Retrograde.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - tilbagegående, i tilbagegang, omvendt, retrograd
n. - degenereret person
v. intr. - gå tilbage, bevæge sig baglæns, degenerere, være retrograd

Nederlands (Dutch)
achteruit gaan(d), slecht iemand

Français (French)
adj. - rétrograde
n. - rétrograde
v. intr. - rétrograder

Deutsch (German)
n. - Rückschritt, Rückwärtsbewegung
adj. - rückschrittlich, rückläufig
v. - rückläufig sein, zurückgehen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - έκφυλος, διεφθαρμένος
adj. - παλινδρομικός, οπισθοδρομικός, ανάδρομος
v. - οπισθοδρομώ

Italiano (Italian)
retrogrado, retrogradare

Português (Portuguese)
n. - retrógrado (m)
adj. - retrógrado
v. - retroceder, recuar

Русский (Russian)
ретроград, реакционный, движущийся в обратном направлении, двигаться в обратном направлении, ухудшаться

Español (Spanish)
adj. - retrógrado
n. - retrógrado
v. intr. - retroceder, retrogradar, degenerar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tillbakagång
adj. - tillbakagående, omvänd, avtagande
v. - gå tillbaka

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
后退的, 退步的, 倒退的, 后退的事物, 倒退, 逆行, 退步

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 後退的, 退步的, 倒退的
n. - 後退的事物
v. intr. - 倒退, 逆行, 退步

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 후퇴하는, 반대의, 퇴화하는
n. - 후퇴 , 반대 , 퇴화
v. intr. - 후퇴하다, 소급하다, 퇴보하다

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 後退する, 逆行する, 退歩する, 逆の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تخلف, تراجع (صفه) تراجعي, عكسي (فعل) يتراجه, يتردى‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮נסוג אחורה, הפוך, מידרדר‬
n. - ‮אדם מתנוון‬
v. intr. - ‮נסוג, הידרדר, הלך והחמיר‬

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