Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to retrograde
Participle: retrograded
Gerund: retrograding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | retrograde |
| you | retrograde |
| he;she;it | retrogrades |
| we | retrograde |
| you | retrograde |
| they | retrograde |
Perfect
| I | have retrograded |
| you | have retrograded |
| he;she;it | has retrograded |
| we | have retrograded |
| you | have retrograded |
| they | have retrograded |
Past
| I | retrograded |
| you | retrograded |
| he;she;it | retrograded |
| we | retrograded |
| you | retrograded |
| they | retrograded |
Pluperfect
| I | had retrograded |
| you | had retrograded |
| he;she;it | had retrograded |
| we | had retrograded |
| you | had retrograded |
| they | had retrograded |
Future
| I | will retrograde |
| you | will retrograde |
| he;she;it | will retrograde |
| we | will retrograde |
| you | will retrograde |
| they | will retrograde |
Future Perfect
| I | will have retrograded |
| you | will have retrograded |
| he;she;it | will have retrograded |
| we | will have retrograded |
| you | will have retrograded |
| they | will have retrograded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | retrograde |
| you | retrograde |
| he;she;it | retrograde |
| we | retrograde |
| you | retrograde |
| they | retrograde |
Perfect
| I | have retrograded |
| you | have retrograded |
| he;she;it | have retrograded |
| we | have retrograded |
| you | have retrograded |
| they | have retrograded |
Imperfect
| I | retrograded |
| you | retrograded |
| he;she;it | retrograded |
| we | retrograded |
| you | retrograded |
| they | retrograded |
Pluperfect
| I | had retrograded |
| you | had retrograded |
| he;she;it | had retrograded |
| we | had retrograded |
| you | had retrograded |
| they | had retrograded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would retrograde |
| you | would retrograde |
| he;she;it | would retrograde |
| we | would retrograde |
| you | would retrograde |
| they | would retrograde |
Perfect
| I | would have retrograded |
| you | would have retrograded |
| he;she;it | would have retrograded |
| we | would have retrograded |
| you | would have retrograded |
| they | would have retrograded |
Imperative
| you | retrograde |
| we | Let's retrograde |
| you | retrograde |
Verbs conjugated like 'retrograde'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'retrograde'
prograde,
regrade,
reprogram,
reprogramme,
retrade,
retrocede,
retrodate,
retrogreen,
retrogress,
reupgrade,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to become worse
- break down, decline, degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, fade, fall off, go bad, go downhill, go off, go to hell, go to pot, go to seed, go to the dogs, lapse, molder, shrivel, suffer, worsen, wane, wither
- to withdraw from a position
- back away, back down, balk, beat a retreat, bug out, crawfish, decline, draw back, fall back, pull out, recede, regrade, retire, retreat, revert, shrink, sound a retreat, turn tail, withdraw
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1392, originally of the apparent motions of planets, from L.
retrogradus "going backward," from
retrogradi "move backward," from
retro- "backward" +
gradi "to go, step." General sense of "tending to revert" is recorded from c.1530.
2. From Middle French retrograder (“to (cause to) go back, return; to (cause to) move backwards; of a celestial object: to show retrograde motion; to date to an earlier period”) (modern French rétrograder), and from its etymon Latin retrōgradī (“to go or step back or backwards; of a celestial object: to show retrograde motion”) (compare Late Latin retrogradare, retrogradari, retrogredere), from retrō (“back, backwards; behind; before, formerly”) + gradior (“to step, walk; to advance, go”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ- (“to go; to walk”)). See: French '
rétrograder', Latin '
retrōgradior'.
Sample Sentences
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[…] Monna Brigida, who had retrograded to false hair in Romola's absence, but now drew it off again and declared she would not mind being gray, if her dear child would stay with her. [1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Romola. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC, book III, page 260:]
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A dabble in the stocks does not always turn out profitably; cotton is sometimes heavy on our hands, and real estate will sulkily retrograde, when, by the calculation, it ought to have advanced. [1845, Joseph C. Neal, “The Moral of Goslyne Greene, who was Born to a Fortune”, in The Gift: A Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Present, Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey and Hart, →OCLC, page 68:]