retrograde

Moving or tending backward.

Opposite to the usual order; inverted or reversed.

Reverting to an earlier or inferior condition.

Of or relating to the orbital revolution or axial rotation of a planetary or other celestial body that moves clockwise from east to west, in the direction opposite to most celestial bodies.

Of or relating to the brief, regularly occurring, apparently backward movement of a planetary body in its orbit as viewed against the fixed stars, caused by the differing orbital velocities of Earth and the body observed.

Of or relating to orbital motion in the direction opposite that of the predominant motion in an orbital system.

To have retrograde motion.

To decline to an inferior state; degenerate.

To move or seem to move backward.