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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.

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retrograde

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retrograde

IPA(Pronunciation)
/ˈɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ɡɹeɪd/
Adjective
archaic also
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.
Japanese Meaning
通常あるいは以前の進行方向に対して逆の方向に向かっている、後退している / 発展途上または未熟な状態へと戻り、衰退あるいは後退していく
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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その惑星の逆行する軌道は、その運動を研究している天文学者たちを困惑させた。

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Sense（1）
Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
Sense（2）
Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
Sense（3）
(zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
Sense（4）
Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
Sense（5）
(music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
Sense（6）
Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
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Sense（7）
Involving a return to or a retracing of a previous course of travel.
Sense（8）
Counterproductive to a desired outcome; contradictory, contrary.
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Sense（9）
Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
Sense（10）
(also astrology) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
Sense（11）
(geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
Sense（12）
(medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
Sense（13）
(poetry, archaic) Of verse: reading the same forwards or backwards; palindromic.

more retrograde
（ comparative ）

most retrograde
（ superlative ）

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