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RETROGRADES
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Classic
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Big
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Super Big
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RETROGRADES is a valid 11-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 22 in Super Big Boggle.
RETROGRADES root RETROGRADE-s
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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 an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Having a passage of music played backwards.
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Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
- archaicInvolving a return to or a retracing of a previous course of travel.
- archaicCounterproductive to a desired outcome; contradictory, contrary.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
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alsooftenpostpositionalOf a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Mercury retrograde
- Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- archaicOf 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.
- The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
- archaicOne who reneges on an agreement, or switches loyalties; a rebel, a renegade.
- 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
- transitiveTo cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- transitiveTo change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- obsoletetransitiveTo cause (someone or something) to revert to an inferior or less developed state.
- intransitiveTo revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- intransitiveOf a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- intransitiveOf a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- intransitiveTo retreat or withdraw from a position.
- intransitiveobsoleteTo move backwards; to recede.
- intransitiveobsoleteOf the telling of an incident, etc.: to move to an earlier time.