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retrograde

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Definition:
1. moving in the wrong direction or making the opposite of progress, regressing
2. counterproductive
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"how can that be, seeing that all Day you were of a very long Stature, and now you are very short; that all day long you had a weak and broken Voice, and now you have a clear and vigorous one; that, in short, all day long you were a Grey-headed old Man, and are now a brisk young Blade: Is it then that whereas in my Country, the Progress is from Life to Death; Animals here go Retrograde from Death to Life, and by growing old become young again."

Cyrano de Bergerac. A Voyage to the Moon
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In going back to school in Wittenberg, / It is most retrograde to our desire:/ And we beseech you, bend you to remain

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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