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(1):

(a.) Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; - opposed to progressive.

(2):

(a.) Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.

(3):

(v. i.) Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.

(4):

(a.) Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.

(5):

(v. i.) To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.