retrograde
Meaning of retrograde
adjective
- Directed backwards, retreating; reverting, especially to an inferior state, declining; inverse, reverse; movement opposite to normal or intended motion, often circular motion.
retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
- Counterproductive to a desired outcome.
- (of a body orbiting another) In the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- Describing a metamorphic change resulting from a decreasing pressure or temperature.
- (by extension, of a person) A person who opposes social reforms, favoring the maintenance of the status quo, conservative.
- A degenerate person.
- 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.
- To move backwards; to recede; to retire; to decline; to revert.
- To show retrogradation.
Information about retrograde
- The plural form of retrograde is: retrogrades.
- Languages in which retrograde is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of retrograde
ret-ro-grade
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- retrograde is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
retrograde synonyms
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retrograde antonyms
Meaning :
liberal, progressist, reformist, direct, prograde
Words that rhyme with retrograde
rade, bigarade, camarade, charade, fanfarade, parade, Brade, abrade, Andrade, TNFerade, antimasquerade, erade, gingerade, masquerade, unmasquerade, Belgrade, Centigrade, aggrade, antegrade, anterograde, belgrade, biodegrade, centigrade, ciliograde, cirrigrade, citigrade, degrade, digitigrade, disgrade, dorsigrade, downgrade, grade, gravigrade, hygrade, intergrade, laterigrade, milligrade, misgrade, multigrade, offgrade, orthograde, overgrade, palmigrade, paygrade, phalangigrade, photodegrade, pinnigrade, plantigrade, posigrade, pregrade
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