retrograde

IPA: rˈɛtrʌgreɪd

A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
(astrology) The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
(archaic) One who reneges on an agreement, or switches loyalties; a rebel, a renegade.
(music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.

(transitive)
(geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
(geology) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
(obsolete) To cause (someone or something) to revert to an inferior or less developed state.
(intransitive)
To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
(astrology, astronomy) Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
(geography) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
(military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
(obsolete)
To move backwards; to recede.
Of the telling of an incident, etc.: to move to an earlier time.

Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
(zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
(music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
(archaic)
Involving a return to or a retracing of a previous course of travel.
Counterproductive to a desired outcome; contradictory, contrary.
(astronomy)
Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
(also astrology, often postpositive) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
(geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
(medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
(poetry, archaic) Of verse: reading the same forwards or backwards; palindromic.

Examples of "retrograde" in Sentences

Sagittarius: Pluto retrograde is still making up down and down up.
This is called retrograde motion; the direction in which the Earth turns is called prograde.
The term retrograde here is used in a purely theoretical sense, and cannot be held to imply any actual degradation.
(Like I would know what that meant, but my brother always says something about Mercury in retrograde or something when I feel over-sad.)
When the Conservatives first came to office in 2006, then information commissioner John Reid sounded the alarm bells at what he called retrograde steps towards secrecy -- and was promptly run out of town.
Everyone is constantly telling you how hard it is, how you're never going to get a second book published unless about 367 things go just exactly the right way on the third Thursday of the seventh month when Venus is in retrograde and a brindle armadillo crosses