retrograding

verb

get worse or fall back to a previous condition

go back over

move back

move in a direction contrary to the usual one

move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies

adjective

moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction

going from better to worse

of amnesia

moving from east to west on the celestial sphere

Roots

retroretro- · Latin · backward gradior-grad · Latin · step, walk

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The word retrograding breaks down into 2 roots of Latin origin: retro-, from Latin retro (“backward”); and -grad, from Latin gradior (“step, walk”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.