adjective Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
adjective Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing. Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
adjective Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
adjective Of the order of something: inverse, reverse. Having a passage of music played backwards.
adjective Having a passage of music played backwards.
adjective Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
adjective Involving a return to or a retracing of a previous course of travel. Counterproductive to a desired outcome; contradictory, contrary.
adjective Involving a return to or a retracing of a previous course of travel.