retrograde : | |||||||||||||
go back over; "retrograde arguments" move back; "The glacier retrogrades" move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets" move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth going from better to worse regressive get worse; fall back to a previous or worse condition moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction backward |
|||||||||||||
|