different between receding vs retrograde

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?d??

Verb

receding

1. present participle of recede

Adjective

receding (comparative more receding, superlative most receding)

1. going or moving back or further away from a previous position, gradually diminishing.
2. That recedes

   A receding hairline

Translations

Noun

receding (plural recedings)

1. The action of something that recedes; a recessed part.
   • 1820, John Gibson Lockhart, Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk (page 20)

     The sombre shadows, cast by those huge houses of which it is composed, and the streams of faint light cutting the darkness here and there, where the entrance to some fantastic alley pierces the sable mass of building—the strange projectings, recedings, and windings […]

   • 1829, Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler (page 205)

     the great overflowings and recedings of the waters

Hyponyms

• fast-receding
• fastest-receding

Anagrams

• creeding

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t?????e?d/

Etymology 1

From Middle English [Term?], from Latin retr?gradus, from retr? (“backwards”) + gradus (“step”).

Adjective

retrograde (comparative more retrograde, superlative most retrograde)

1. 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.

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 74]:

     Such retrograde people still exist, resisting modernity, dragging their feet.

2. Counterproductive to a desired outcome.
   • 1601 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act I Scene ii.

     In going back to school in Wittenberg, / It is most retrograde to our desire:/ And we beseech you, bend you to remain

3. (astronomy, of a body orbiting another) In the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
4. (geology) Describing a metamorphic change resulting from a decreasing pressure or temperature.
5. (by extension, of a person) A person who opposes social reforms, favoring the maintenance of the status quo, conservative.

Synonyms

• traditionalist
• reactionary

Antonyms

• liberal
• reformist
• progressist

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Translations

Etymology 2

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Noun

retrograde (plural retrogrades)

1. A degenerate person.
2. (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last and what is played last in the original melody is played first.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin retr?gradior or Late Latin retrogredere (retro- (“back”) + gradi (“walk”)).

Verb

retrograde (third-person singular simple present retrogrades, present participle retrograding, simple past and past participle retrograded)

1. (intransitive) To move backwards; to recede; to retire; to decline; to revert.
2. (intransitive, astronomy) To show retrogradation.

Antonyms

• prograde
• direct

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• retrogarde

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

retrograde

1. inflection of retrograd:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

retrograde

1. feminine plural of retrogrado

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ret?o???ade/, [re.t??o????a.ð?e]

Verb

retrograde

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of retrogradar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of retrogradar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of retrogradar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of retrogradar.