worsen vs retrograde

retrograde vs worsen

worsen is not an adjective while retrograde is an adjective.

worsen and retrograde both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
worsen	No	No	Yes	No
retrograde	No	Yes	Yes	No

As verbs, retrograde is a hyponym of worsen; that is, retrograde is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than worsen:

worsen: grow worse
retrograde: get worse or fall back to a previous condition

Other hyponyms of worsen include inflame, come down, sicken, degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop, deprive, impoverish, fail, tumble, drop away, drop off, fall away, slip, suffer, lose, suffer, regress, retrogress, turn down.

worsen (adjective)	retrograde (adjective)
	of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
	moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
	going from better to worse
	moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction

worsen (verb)	retrograde (verb)
grow worse	get worse or fall back to a previous condition
make worse	go back over
	move back
	move in a direction contrary to the usual one
	move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies

Difference between worsen and retrograde

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