Retrograde
Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive.
Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.
Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.
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Retrograde Quotations
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon
The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
Todd Gitlin
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
David Ricardo
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Retrograde Translations
retrograde in Dutch is achterwaarts
retrograde in Italian is ritornare
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