RETROGRADING Antonyms

• processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible

• relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply

• moving forward

• getting higher or more vigorous

• work out

• undergo development or evolution

• gain through experience

• make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to

• become technologically advanced

• 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

• 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.