- Types Of Speech
- You can use retrograde as a verb, article or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Retrograde
- A 3 syllables verb and 10 letters with the letters a, d, e, g, o, r, and t, 6 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters og. Retrograde starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel with the starting letters r, re, ret, retr, retro, and the ending characters are e, de, ade, rade, grade, ..
- Definition
- Get worse; fall back to a previous or worse condition
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- Compound Words
- A compound word, retrograde has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are retro, and grade.
- School Grade
- Retrograde is set as a sat word that starts with r, ends with e, 3 syllables, 4 vowels and 10 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Retrograde in Pig Latin is said as "etrograderay or etrograderway".
- Unigram
- r | e | t | r | o | g | r | a | d | e
- Bigram
- re | et | tr | ro | og | gr | ra | ad | de
- Trigram
- ret | etr | tro | rog | ogr | gra | rad | ade
- Quadrigram
- retr | etro | trog | rogr | ogra | grad | rade
- Word Gram
- Verb Examples
- get worse;
fall back to a previous or worse condition - go back over;
"retrograde arguments" - move back;
"The glacier retrogrades" - move in a direction contrary to the usual one;
"retrograding planets" - move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
- Article Examples
- 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 Satellite Examples
- moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
- going from better to worse
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abaft | at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane "stow the luggage aft" "ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft" "the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about" |
| Abjure | formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion" "She abjured her beliefs" |
| Aft | at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane "stow the luggage aft" "ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft" "the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about" |
| After | happening at a time subsequent to a reference time "he apologized subsequently" "he''s going to the store but he''ll be back here later" "it didn''t happen until afterward" "two hours after that" |
| Aftermost | located closest to the stern or tail |
| Afterward | happening at a time subsequent to a reference time "he apologized subsequently" "he''s going to the store but he''ll be back here later" "it didn''t happen until afterward" "two hours after that" |
| Afterwards | happening at a time subsequent to a reference time "he apologized subsequently" "he''s going to the store but he''ll be back here later" "it didn''t happen until afterward" "two hours after that" |
| Astern | (of a ship or an airplane) behind "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide" |
| Atavistic | characteristic of an atavist |
| Atrophy | any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) |
View all cognitive synonyms for Retrograde
| Antonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Advance | the act of moving forward toward a goal |
| Come Along | |
| Come On | |
| Get Along | |
| Get On | |
| Progress | gradual improvement or growth or development "advancement of knowledge" "great progress in the arts" |
| Shape Up |
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Retrograde | get worse fall back to a previous or worse condition |
View English words with the unique letters used in retrograde. Words With The Letters Adegort
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Regress | returning to a former state |
| Regression | returning to a former state |
| Retrogression | returning to a former state |
| Retroversion | returning to a former state |
| Reversion | a failure to maintain a higher state |
Retrograde Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With R
- Ends With E
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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