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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. Backward; back: retrorocket.
  2. Situated behind: retrolental.
  3. Contrary to a usual or natural course or direction: retrograde.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A prefix of Latin origin, meaning ‘back’ or ‘backward,’ ‘behind’: equivalent to post-, and the opposite of ante- (also of pre- or pro-) with reference to place or position, rarely to time; sometimes also equivalent to re- and opposed to pre- or pro-. It corresponds to opistho- in words from the Greek.
  2. Backward.

Wiktionary

  1. back or backward
  2. behind
  3. in the opposite direction
  4. informal in an old-fashioned or old-school way

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. A prefix or combining form signifying backward, back.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. affecting things past
  2. n. a fashion reminiscent of the past

Etymologies

  1. Latin retrō-, from retrō, backward, behind; see re- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Turtles Forever, wherein the aughties heroes encounter their retro-'80s selves.”

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