Crossword-Solution: RETROGRADE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retrograde | a. | Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet. |
| Retrograde | a. | Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive. |
| Retrograde | a. | Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc. |
| Retrograde | v. i. | To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet. |
| Retrograde | v. i. | Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence. |
We have 45 clues for the answer “RETROGRADE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| www.ismercuryin___.com | 1 answer |
| move in a direction contrary to the usual one | 1 answer |
| Moving backward | 1 answer |
| Mercury might be in this | 1 answer |
| Backward; inverse | 1 answer |
| Like the orbit of Halley's Comet | 1 answer |
| Going back | 2 answers |
| Like some orbits | 2 answers |
| Go backward | 2 answers |
| going backwards | 3 answers |
| GO back over | 8 answers |
| Move back? | 8 answers |
| retrocede | 11 answers |
| Astern | 13 answers |
| back (foremost) | 14 answers |
| Rearward | 14 answers |
| Abaft | 15 answers |
| regressive | 15 answers |
| retrogressively | 15 answers |
| reversionary | 17 answers |
| To the rear | 18 answers |
| back of | 18 answers |
| retrogress | 19 answers |
| in back of | 22 answers |
| MOVE backward | 22 answers |
| reversed | 22 answers |
| Aft | 23 answers |
| hark back | 24 answers |
| Fall Back | 25 answers |
| ABACK | 28 answers |
| in reverse | 37 answers |
| MOVING back | 48 answers |
| Deteriorate | 48 answers |
| Resign | 49 answers |
| Recede | 51 answers |
| Go Back | 51 answers |
| Fall (off) | 51 answers |
| Descend | 63 answers |
| Back (out) | 64 answers |
| AFTER ___ | 66 answers |
| regress | 69 answers |
| Ebb | 74 answers |
| Behind | 78 answers |
| Back up | 80 answers |
| Backward | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with RETROGRADE (5)
THE JEW Our history must needs retrograde for the space of a few pages, to inform the reader of certain passages material to his understanding the rest of this important narrative.
For, although they can inflict instantaneous death by a retrograde movement, yet unless they can at once disengage their stinging extremity from the struggling body of their victim, their own frail bodies are liable to be shattered.
But the retrograde motion of the _Nautilus_ was increasing; and, reversing the screw, it carried us at great speed.
Here, too, sundry vague survivals of theological ideas caused many of the clergy to side with retrograde physicians.
The new system being now established, a retrograde movement to the old would be almost as difficult as the step that placed him in his unparalleled position.
Quotes with RETROGRADE (3)
they Whatever can make life truly happy is absolutely good in its own right because it cannot be warped into evil From whence then comes error In that while all men wish for a happy life they mistake the means for the thing itself and while they fancy themselves in pursuit of it they are flying from it for when the sum of happiness consists in solid tranquillity and an unembarrassed confidence therein they are ever collecting causes of disquiet and not only carry burthens but…
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; t…
Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is freighted with the load of accumulated knowledge. It is information rich. Logically, then, in its retrograde tracking, it would divest itself of its knowledge: teach rather than learn, so that when it arrived at the other end, it would be information poor, even info empty.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1977–2025).