English Dictionary

retrograde

/ˈɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ɡɹeɪd/

adj

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.

The fashion industry is experiencing a retrograde trend, with designers bringing back styles from the past.

意味（1）

Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.

意味（2）

Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.

意味（3）

(zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.

意味（4）

Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.

意味（5）

(music) Having a passage of music played backwards.

意味（6）

Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.

retrograde ideas, morals, etc.

意味（7）

Involving a return to or a retracing of a previous course of travel.

意味（8）

Counterproductive to a desired outcome; contradictory, contrary.

In going back to school in Wittenberg, / It is most retrograde to our desire: / And we beseech you, bend you to remain

意味（9）

Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.

意味（10）

(also astrology) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.

意味（11）

(geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.

意味（12）

(medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.

意味（13）

(poetry, archaic) Of verse: reading the same forwards or backwards; palindromic.