(formal, disapproving) (of an action) making a situation worse or returning to how sth was in the past:
The closure of the factory is a retrograde step.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is retrograde a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, retrograde is tagged as adjective.
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