- Backward - Regressive - Returning to an inferior state - Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the
succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet. - Tending or moving backward; having a backward course;
contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive. - Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a
retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc. - To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear
to move, backward, as a planet.