retrogressive motion
1backward — backward, retrograde, retrogressive, regressive all involve the idea of not moving or going ahead, or forward, or in advance. Only when applied to motion or a movement does backward imply the reverse of forward motion {a backward thrust of a… …
2literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
3mounting — Synonyms and related words: Brownian movement, Olympian, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aerial, aggrandizement, airy, altitudinous, amplification, anabasis, anabatic, angular motion,… …
4plunging — Synonyms and related words: Brownian movement, abrupt, abysmal, abyssal, advance, angular motion, ascending, ascent, axial, axial motion, back, back flowing, backflowing, backing, backward, backward motion, bluff, bold, bottomless, breakneck,… …
5rising — Synonyms and related words: Brownian movement, abruptness, abscess, acclinate, acclivitous, acclivity, advance, anabasis, anabatic, angular motion, aposteme, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, ascendant, ascending, ascension, ascensional …
6sinking — Synonyms and related words: Brownian movement, advance, aging, angular motion, anxious, apprehensive, ascending, ascent, axial, axial motion, back, back flowing, backflowing, backing, backward, backward motion, bad, baptism, burial, career,… …
7soaring — Synonyms and related words: Brownian movement, Olympian, advance, aerial, aeronautics, air service, airline, airy, altitudinous, anabasis, angular motion, ascending, ascension, ascent, aspiring, astronautics, august, aviation, axial, axial motion …
8Regression — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Motion backwards. < N PARAG:Regression >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 regress regress regression Sgm: N 1 retrocession retrocession retrogression retrograduation retroaction Sgm: N 1 reculade reculade Sgm: N 1 retreat …
9human disease — Introduction an impairment of the normal state of a human being that interrupts or modifies its vital functions. health versus disease Before human disease can be discussed, the meanings of the terms health, physical fitness, illness …
10Australia — /aw strayl yeuh/, n. 1. a continent SE of Asia, between the Indian and the Pacific oceans. 18,438,824; 2,948,366 sq. mi. (7,636,270 sq. km). 2. Commonwealth of, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, consisting of the federated states and… …
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