retrog.

Adjective

retrograde (comparative more retrograde, superlative most retrograde)

1. Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
2. Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
   1. Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
3. Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
   1. Having a passage of music played backwards.
4. Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
   • retrograde ideas, morals, etc.

   Synonyms:

   reactionary, traditionalist, backward

   Antonyms:

   liberal, progressist, reformist

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