retrograde Meaning and Definition

1. a. of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma

2. a. moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth

3. s. going from better to worse

4. s. moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction

5. v. get worse or fall back to a previous condition

6. v. go back over

7. v. move back

8. v. move in a direction contrary to the usual one

9. v. move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies