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

Example sentences :

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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