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How to pronounce “retrograde”
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Pronunciation guide for retrograde
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of retrograde with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Marvels and Mysteries Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope
It goes in a retrograde orbit backwards around the planet.
- Definition summary
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
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How to pronounce retrograde
The Marvels and Mysteries Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope

It goes in a retrograde orbit backwards around the planet.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “retrograde”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- (archaic)
- (astronomy)
- (geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- (medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- (poetry, archaic) Of verse: reading the same forwards or backwards; palindromic.
- [Adverb]
- In a reverse direction; backwards.
- [Noun]
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
- (archaic) One who reneges on an agreement, or switches loyalties; a rebel, a renegade.
- (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.
- [Verb]
- (transitive)
- (intransitive)
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