What is another word for retrograde?
Synonyms for retrograde
ˈrɛ trəˌgreɪdret·ro·grade
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Princeton's WordNet
retrogradeadjective
moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
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retrogressive, retralAntonyms:
direct, progressive, forward, anterograderetrogradeadjective
of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
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retrogressive, retralAntonyms:
direct, anterograde, forward, progressiveretrograde, retrogressiveadjective
going from better to worse
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retrogressive, retralAntonyms:
direct, forward, anterograde, progressiveretral, retrogradeverb
moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
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retrogressive, retralAntonyms:
progressive, anterograde, direct, forwardretrogradeverb
move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
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rehash, hash over, retrogress, regress, retreatAntonyms:
anterograde, forward, progressive, directretrogradeverb
move in a direction contrary to the usual one
"retrograding planets"
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rehash, hash over, retrogress, regress, retreatAntonyms:
direct, anterograde, forward, progressiveretrograde, retreatverb
move back
"The glacier retrogrades"
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draw back, retrogress, withdraw, back away, regress, retire, hash over, back out, crawfish, move back, rehash, retreat, recede, pull away, pull in one's horns, pull back, crawfish outAntonyms:
direct, forward, progressive, anterograderetrograde, rehash, hash oververb
go back over
"retrograde arguments"
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rehash, hash over, retrogress, regress, retreatAntonyms:
progressive, direct, forward, anterograderegress, retrograde, retrogressverb
get worse or fall back to a previous condition
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return, retreat, retrovert, relapse, hash over, revert, retrogress, fall back, recidivate, turn back, lapse, rehash, regressAntonyms:
direct, anterograde, forward, progressive
Dictionary of English Synonymes
retrogradeadjective
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backwardretrogradeverb
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retrocede, recede, retire, go or move backward, retrace one's steps
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
retrogradeverb
Synonyms:
retrocede, recede, decline, deteriorate
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "retrograde":
backward-looking, backwards, retrogressive, backward, regressive, backwards-looking, reactionary, back
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#103 | back | |
#357 | return | |
#8206 | retreat | |
#10524 | withdraw | |
#12026 | backward | |
#12529 | retire | |
#12694 | backwards | |
#20021 | revert | |
#21097 | lapse | |
#25141 | relapse | |
#38684 | retrograde | |
#38772 | reactionary | |
#39147 | regress | |
#42146 | crawfish | |
#54225 | regressive | |
#63983 | recede | |
#66409 | rehash | |
#226482 | retrogressive |
How to use retrograde in a sentence?
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
This week, while one part of the Japanese government is proudly facilitating international cooperation by hosting the G20 meeting, another is quietly extricating itself from the obligation for global collaboration on the protection and management of the world's whales, japan leaving the IWC and defying international law to pursue its commercial whaling ambitions is renegade, retrograde and myopic....
Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.
British Prime Minister David Cameron:
If this is part of international action against ISIL (IS) and that appalling terrorist death cult outfit, then that is all to the good, if, on the other hand, this is action against the Free Syrian Army and in defence of Assad the dictator, then obviously that is a retrograde step, but let's see exactly what's happened.
Night is an abyss at the edge of a footstep, raining anvils in a mercury-retrograde imagination needing chemicals. Fog is a curtain of anticipation. When lifted our way is lit by stars on a high dose of infinity.
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