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What does retrograde mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word retrograde? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Directed backwards, retreating; reverting, especially to an inferior state, declining; inverse, reverse; movement opposite to normal or intended motion, often circular motion.
  2. Counterproductive to a desired outcome.
  3. (astronomy) In the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
  4. (geology) Describing a metamorphic change resulting from a decreasing pressure or temperature.
Noun
  1. A degenerate person.
  2. (music) 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.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To move backwards; to recede; to retire; to decline; to revert.
  2. (astronomy) To show retrogradation.
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