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Antonyms for retrograde
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : re-truh-greyd |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛ trəˌgreɪd |
Definition of retrograde
Origin :- late 14c., originally of the apparent motions of planets, from Latin retrogradus "going back, going backward," from retrogradi "move backward," from retro- "backward" (see retro-) + gradi "to go, step" (see grade (n.)). General sense of "tending to revert" is recorded from 1530s.
- adj reverting
- The ideal is as impracticable as it is puerile and retrograde.
- Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) » by John Morley
- Such a return to the nakedness of the brute must be retrograde.
- Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopdists » by John Morley
- This is the kernel of all that is most retrograde in Mr. Carlyle's teaching.
- Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I » by John Morley
- But she had an idea that the world would go on rather than retrograde.
- Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Boston » by Amanda Millie Douglas
- Its retrograde movement was slow, but steady and irresistible.
- Extract from : « Freaks on the Fells » by R.M. Ballantyne
- This retrograde movement was soon effected, and the friends dismounted.
- Extract from : « The Buffalo Runners » by R.M. Ballantyne
- He is retrograde; the Spain of to-day is and must be progressive.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 » by Various
- You retrograde five full centuries when you step across the line.
- Extract from : « Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber » by James Aitken Wylie
- And I'm not sure but the church would suit your retrograde ideas.
- Extract from : « Backlog Studies » by Charles Dudley Warner
- There could be nothing more foolish, barbarous, and retrograde.
- Extract from : « Bouvard and Pcuchet » by Gustave Flaubert
Synonyms for retrograde
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