Definitions For Retrograde

verb

  • Get worse or fall back to a previous condition
  • Go back over
  • Move back
  • Move in a direction contrary to the usual one
  • Move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies

adjective

  • Of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
  • Moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth

adjective

  • Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
  • Going from better to worse

Is Retrograde a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
13

The word Retrograde is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Retrograde in a Sentence

  • A retrograde policy that would leave more people poorer than they are now
  • retrograde pedaling will engage the brakes on that bike
  • The Dark Ages, the period following the fall of the Roman Empire when Western civilization seriously retrograded

Synonyms for Retrograde

Antonyms for Retrograde

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