Scrabble?! RETROGRADE

Definitions of RETROGRADE in various dictionaries:

verb - move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies

verb - move in a direction contrary to the usual one

verb - move back

verb - go back over

verb - get worse or fall back to a previous condition

adj - moving from east to west on the celestial sphere

adj - of amnesia

adj - going from better to worse

adj - moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction

Moving or tending backward.

Opposite to the usual order; inverted or reversed.

Reverting to an earlier or inferior condition.

Astronomy.

Of or relating to the orbital revolution or axial rotation of a planetary or other celestial body that moves clockwise from east to west, in the direction opposite to most celestial bodies.

Of or relating to the brief, regularly occurring, apparently backward movement of a planetary body in its orbit as viewed against the fixed stars, caused by the differing orbital velocities of Earth and the body observed.

Opposed; contrary.

To move or seem to move backward.

To decline to an inferior state; degenerate.