RETROGRADED Antonyms

• being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful

• (used of societies) having high industrial development

• (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads

• increased or intensified in value or beauty or quality

• made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing

• become or made better in quality

• (of land) made ready for development or agriculture by clearing of trees and brush

• brought up to date

• (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel

• freed from impurities by processing

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• precise to a fine degree

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• work out

• undergo development or evolution

• gain through experience

• gradual improvement or growth or development

• the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

• a movement forward

• develop in a positive way

• move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

• form or accumulate steadily

• an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

• software that provides better performance than an earlier version did

• a reservation that is improved

• the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises

• hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did

• the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components)

• rate higher; raise in value or esteem

• to improve what was old or outdated

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• get better travel conditions

• give better travel conditions to

• direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short

• straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action

• in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child

• moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

• similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity

• (of a current) flowing in one direction only

• without deviation

• having no intervening persons, agents, conditions

• being an immediate result or consequence

• in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker

• lacking compromising or mitigating elements

• command with authority

• intend (something) to move towards a certain goal

• guide the actors in (plays and films)

• govern or manage

• take somebody somewhere

• cause to go somewhere

• point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards

• lead, as in the performance of a composition

• give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction

• specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

• direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

• put an address on (an envelope)

• plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

• of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma

• Of sediment, to build out seawards in conditions of marine regression.

• Moving in a forward direction, especially with respect to other bodies in the same system.

• Being a metamorphic change resulting from a higher pressure or temperature.