to retrograde

Examples

• All

• We cannot allow our progress to retrograde.

• The company started to retrograde after a series of poor management decisions.

• If left untreated, the disease may retrograde and become more difficult to manage.

• The economy has retrograded significantly in the last year.

• Due to the economic recession, many industries began to retrograde, losing the advancements they had made over the past decade.

• The educational system seems to retrograde as funding cuts hinder progress and reinstate outdated teaching methods.

• If we do not take action now, our society will retrograde to a time when basic rights were not guaranteed for all.

Synonyms

R

to regress

vsto retrograde

24 7.5

To return to an earlier, less developed or worse state

stresses the process of worsening as well as moving back in state

D

to devolve

vsto retrograde

20 7.4

To become worse and more chaotic

covers both quick reversions and slow deterioration of a process

B

to backslide

vsto retrograde

2 7.5

To start doing old bad habits again after making progress

is the general idea of worsening not limited to personal habits

G

going backward

vsto retrograde

1 3.7

Moving back to an earlier state instead of making progress

is broader, stressing loss of progress rather than specific decline details

R

to retrogress

vsto retrograde

• Formal

1 8.7

To go back to an earlier, worse state

is used more broadly to mean getting worse rather than a simple reversal

R

reverting

vsto retrograde

5.8

Going back to an earlier state

emphasises becoming worse as well as merely returning to earlier state

Antonyms

I

to improve

∞ 1.0

To make something better

D

to develop

905 1.6

To grow or change slowly to become more mature

Compounds

R

retrograde amnesia

• Specialized

3 8.1

A loss of memory for events just before an injury

How Regressive

to degenerate

34 6.3

to deteriorate

146 5.9

to retrograde

8.2

to decline

344 3.7

to lapse

8 5.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology