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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