Word
Retrograde
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
ret-ro-grade
Definition
- a. - Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the
succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
- a. - Tending or moving backward; having a backward course;
contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive.
- a. - Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a
retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
- v. i. - To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear
to move, backward, as a planet.
- v. i. - Hence, to decline from a better to a worse
condition, as in morals or intelligence.
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