Of or pertaining to protectionism, or an advocate thereof.
Someone who believes in protecting domestic producers by impeding or limiting the importation of foreign goods and services via actions taken by government.
Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
Having a passage of music played backwards.
Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
To 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.
To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
To retreat or withdraw from a position.
Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
In a reverse direction; backwards.
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.
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.