Results for retrograde

Definitions of retrograde:

Proceeding backward.

1. Moving backward. 2. Degenerating, reversing the normal order of growth and development.

Usage examples for retrograde:

• Discovering that she was in danger of overstepping the limits of my patience, she drew back with a skill which performed the retrograde movement without permitting it to betray itself. "The Guilty River", Wilkie Collins

• What a retrograde movement has liberty made in this country in the last fifty years! "The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus", American Anti-Slavery Society

• Some, indeed, may be absolutely stationary, and others even retrograde "An Essay on the Principle of Population", Thomas Malthus