retrograde

Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.

Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.

Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.

Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.

Having a passage of music played backwards.

Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.

Involving a return to or a retracing of a previous course of travel.

Counterproductive to a desired outcome; contradictory, contrary.

Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.

Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.