retrograde
/ˈɹɛtɹəˌɡɹeɪd/ adjectif C2En français : rétrograde
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Having a passage of music played backwards.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative. · retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement. · Mercury retrograde
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