Meaning

• Directed backwards, retreating; reverting, especially to an inferior state, declining; inverse, reverse; movement opposite to normal or intended motion, often circular motion.

  "retrograde ideas, morals, etc."

• Counterproductive to a desired outcome.

• (of a body orbiting another) In the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.

• Describing a metamorphic change resulting from a decreasing pressure or temperature.

• (by extension, of a person) A person who opposes social reforms, favoring the maintenance of the status quo, conservative.