Crossword clues for retrograde
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retrograde \Re"tro*grade\, a. [L. retrogradus, from retrogradi, retrogressus, to retrograde; retro back + gradi to step: cf. F. r['e]trograde. See Grade.]
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(Astron.) Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
--Hutton.And if he be in the west side in that condition, then is he retrograde.
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Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive. ``Progressive and not retrograde.''
--Bacon.It is most retrograde to our desire.
--Shak. Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
--Bacon.
Retrograde \Re"tro*grade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Retrograded; p. pr. & vb. n. Retrograding.] [L. retrogradare, retrogradi: cf. F. r['e]trograder.]
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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1 Directed backwards, retreating; reverting especially inferior state, declining; inverse, reverse; movement opposite to normal or intended motion, often circular motion. 2 counterproductive to a desired outcome. 3 (context astronomy of a body orbiting another English) In the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin. Etymology 2
n. 1 A degenerate person. 2 (context music English) 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. Etymology 3
v
1 (context intransitive English) To move backwards; to recede; to retire; to decline; to revert. 2 (context intransitive astronomy English) To show retrogradation.
WordNet
adj. 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]
of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma [ant: anterograde]
going from better to worse [syn: retrogressive]
moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction [syn: retral]
v. move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets"
move back; "The glacier retrogrades" [syn: retreat]
go back over; "retrograde arguments" [syn: rehash, hash over]
get worse; fall back to a previous or worse condition [syn: regress, retrogress] [ant: progress]
Wikipedia
Retrograde may refer to:
Retrograde is a 2004 science fiction action film directed by Christopher Kulikowski and starring Dolph Lundgren. The film was released theatrically in South Korea on 14 January 2005. It was shot in Italy and Luxembourg.
A musical line which is the reverse of a previously or simultaneously stated line is said to be its retrograde or cancrizans ("walking backward", medieval Latin, from cancer, crab). An exact retrograde includes both the pitches and rhythms in reverse. An even more exact retrograde reverses the physical contour of the notes themselves, though this is possible only in electronic music. Some composers choose to subject just the pitches of a musical line to retrograde, or just the rhythms. In twelve-tone music, reversal of the pitch classes alone—regardless of the melodic contour created by their registral placement—is regarded as a retrograde.
"Retrograde" is a song by English electronic music producer and singer-songwriter James Blake. The song was released as a digital download on 11 February 2013 as the lead single from his second studio album Overgrown (2013). The song was written, produced and recorded by Blake, and the music video was directed by Martin de Thurah.
Usage examples of "retrograde".
Surely, sooner or later, in the boonful eternities of being, every creature capable of intelligence, allied to the moral law, drawing life from the Infinite, must begin to travel the ascending path of virtue and blessedness, and never retrograde again.
In this, it seems to me, we should agree with these skeptical anti-realists and knowledge microscopists of today: their instinct, which repels them from modern reality, is unrefuted - what do their retrograde bypaths concern us!
The truth is that this movement, based always upon a misconception of equality, so far as it would change the duties of the sexes, is a retrograde.
The slight alteration in planetary regrades and retrogrades is the only clue to their passing.
Strange to say, Bax found even the most radical party, that of the communistic Anabaptists, retrograde, with its program of return to a golden age of gild and common land.
The doc had explained about post-traumatic memory loss, both antegrade and retrograde.
And, we might also ask, why the tangential resistance to the comet of Encke should not also produce a retrograde motion in the apsides of the orbit, instead of diminishing its period?
Retrograde axoplasmic flow moves the virus rapidly throughout the central nervous system.
Captain Plehkos executed a retrograde movement at a limping run, commandeered the mule from a sergeant then led his forty-eight bravos far enough down the hill to be well out of bow range.
Our narrative retrogrades to a period shortly previous to the incidents last mentioned, when, as the reader must remember, the unfortunate Knight of the Leopard, bestowed upon the Arabian physician by King Richard, rather as a slave than in any other capacity, was exiled from the camp of the Crusaders, in whose ranks he had so often and so brilliantly distinguished himself.
A full day and then another night had been required to prepare the warbands for the retrograde movement.
We await, I predict, the hero of «o«-action, the catatonic hero, the one beyond calm, divorced from all stimulus, carried here and there across sets by burly extras whose blood sings with retrograde amines.
In the Bouches du-Rhône, where the canton of Seignon, by mistake or through routine, swore "to maintain the constitution of the kingdom," it sets aside these retrograde elected representatives, commences proceedings against the "crime committed," and sends troops against Noves because the Noves elector, a justice who is denounced and in peril, has escaped from the electoral den.
A recent writer, in some respects of considerable merit, proposes (to use his own words,) not a crusade, but a civilizade, against this polygamous community, to put an end to what seems to him a retrograde step in civilization.
Crooks and his companions had been completely disheartened by this retrograde march through a bleak and barren country.