retrograde
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
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Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
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Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
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Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
Đồng nghĩa: reactionary, traditionalist, backward
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(archaic)Involving a return to or a retracing of a previous course of travel.
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(archaic)Counterproductive to a desired outcome; contradictory, contrary.
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Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
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(also, often, postpositional)Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
Mercury retrograde
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(geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
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(medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
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(archaic)(poetry, archaic) Of verse: reading the same forwards or backwards; palindromic.
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
In a reverse direction; backwards.
Đồng nghĩa: retrogradely
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
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One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
Đồng nghĩa: mossback, mossyback, reactionary, traditionalist
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(archaic)One who reneges on an agreement, or switches loyalties; a rebel, a renegade.
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(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.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
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(transitive)To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
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(obsolete, transitive)To cause (someone or something) to revert to an inferior or less developed state.
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(intransitive)To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
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(intransitive)Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
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(intransitive)Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
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(intransitive)To retreat or withdraw from a position.
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(intransitive, obsolete)To move backwards; to recede.
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(intransitive, obsolete)Of the telling of an incident, etc.: to move to an earlier time.
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ine-pro The adjective is derived from Middle English retrograd, retrograde, from Middle French retrograde and Old French retrograde (modern rétrograde), and from their etymon Latin retrōgradus (of a celestial object: appearing to move backwards) (compare retrōgradus), from retrō (back, backwards; behind; before, formerly) + gradus (pace, step). retro-.