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"Retrograde" Definition

adjective

Archaic Opposed; contrary.
Astronomy Of or relating to the brief, regularly occurring, apparently backward movement of a planetary body in its orbit as viewed against the fixed stars, caused by the differing orbital velocities of Earth and the body observed.
Astronomy Of or relating to the orbital revolution or axial rotation of a planetary or other celestial body that moves clockwise from east to west, in the direction opposite to most celestial bodies.
Moving or tending backward.
Opposite to the usual order; inverted or reversed.

verb-intransitive

To decline to an inferior state; degenerate.
To move or seem to move backward. See Synonyms at recede1.

verb

To turn back .
To go back .
To go back over or recapitulate something.
To decline to a worse condition.

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