retrograde
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1. retrograde - Noun
2. retrograde - Adjective
3. retrograde - Verb
4. retrograde - Adverb
5. retrograde - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive.
Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.
Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.
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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Whoever exploits retrograde oxidising processes must inevitably inaugurate a scarcity and shortage of food, raw materials and fuels.
Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam "the most retrograde force in the world”, and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran.
One of the principal claims of Mr. Darwin's theory to acceptance is, that it enables us to dispense with a law of progression as a necessary accompaniment of variation. It will account equally well for what is called degradation, or a retrograde movement towards a simpler structure.
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.