📚 Retrograde, adjective. 🔉 /ˈrɛtrəɡreɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Directed or moving backwards. ❗️ Examples: 1. A retrograde flow. 2. They argue that the style is retrograde and that they reflect neither recent Malian contemporary art nor a Malian aesthetic. 3. Maybe it's old-fashioned, retrograde, romantic, but I would tend to draw a distinction between an author's decision to create a novel and a studio's decision to option it for adaptation. 4. Then turn the nuts on the suspending rods, so as to compress the springs just enough to give the platen a quick retrograde motion; observing, at the same time, to get the surface of the platen parallel with the surface of the bed. 5. In some patients the atrioventricular node allows retrograde conduction of ventricular impulses to the atria. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic