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Meaning of retrograde

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  retrograde
      adj 1: moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for
             planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that
             of the Earth [ant: {direct}]
      2: of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma [ant:
         {anterograde}]
      3: going from better to worse [syn: {retrograde},
         {retrogressive}]
      4: moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or
         contrary to a previous direction [syn: {retral},
         {retrograde}]
      v 1: move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
      2: move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding
         planets"
      3: move back; "The glacier retrogrades" [syn: {retrograde},
         {retreat}]
      4: go back over; "retrograde arguments" [syn: {retrograde},
         {rehash}, {hash over}]
      5: get worse or fall back to a previous condition [syn:
         {regress}, {retrograde}, {retrogress}] [ant: {advance}, {come
         along}, {come on}, {get along}, {get on}, {progress}, {shape
         up}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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