retrograde

  1. Adjective.  Directed backwards, retreating; reverting especially inferior state, declining; inverse, reverse; movement opposite to normal or intended motion, often circular motion.
  2. Adjective.  Counterproductive to a desired outcome.
  3. Adjective.  (astronomy, of a body orbiting another) In the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
  4. Noun.  A degenerate person.
  5. Verb.  (intransitive) To move backwards; to recede; to retire; to decline; to revert.
  6. Verb.  (intransitive, astronomy) To show retrogradation.

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