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retrogradeadjective directed, turned, or done toward the backretrograde pedaling will engage the brakes on that bike backward, rearward reverse, reversedaft, after, hind, posterior, rearastern, sternforemost forward pleasantly reminiscent of an earlier timethe loft's retrograde decor seeks to capture the look and feel of the swinging '60s antique, old-fashioned, old-school, old-time, old-timey, old-world, oldfangled, quaint, retro, vintage antiquated, moldy, obsolete, rinky-dinkhistoric, historical, olden, traditionalold hat, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, outworn, passé, superannuateddated, fusty, moth-eaten, musty, stodgyaged, age-old, ancient, antediluvian, atavistic, fossilized, hoary, venerablebygone, erstwhile, former, late, pastforgotten, remoteageless, datelesstimelessanachronistic(also anachronic), anachronous contemporary, current, hot, mod, modern, modernist, modernistic, new age, newfangled, new-fashioned, present-day, red-hot, space-age, state-of-the-art, ultramodern, up-to-date fresh, newchic, designer, fashionable, smart, stylishmodernized, refurbished, remodeled, renewed, updatedlast, latestfuturistic, high-tech(also hi-tech), latter-day, nontraditionalrecent to become worse or of less valuethe Dark Ages, the period following the fall of the Roman Empire when Western civilization seriously retrograded atrophy, crumble, decay, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, devolve, ebb, regress, rot, sink, worsen abate, de-escalate, diminish, downsize, dwindle, recede, wanebreak down, corrupt, decompose, degrade, dilapidate, disintegrate, molder, putrefysour, spoillessen, lower, reducedebilitate, underminedroop, fail, fall, flag, lag, languish, run down, sag, slip, waste (away), weaken, wilt go to pot, go to seed(or run to seed) ameliorate, improve, meliorate better, upgradeenhance, enrich, fortify, heighten, intensify, strengthenadvance, develop, march, proceed, progress in the 14th century |