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