Retrospective

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Retrospective \Re`tro*spec"tive\, a. [Cf. F. r['e]trospectif.]
     1. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to
        {prospective}; as, a retrospective view.
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              The sage, with retrospective eye.     --Pope.


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     2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past;
        retroactive; as, a retrospective law.
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              Inflicting death by a retrospective enactment.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  retrospective
       adj : concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective
             self-justification" [ant: {prospective}]
       n : an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's
           life work

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "retrospective":
     a priori, back, backward, demonstration, display, early, enactment,
     evocative, ex post facto, exhibit, exhibition, exposition,
     exposure, in retrospect, into the past, memoried, mindful,
     mnemonic, opening, ostentation, performance, presentation,
     presentment, production, projection, recollected, redolent,
     reexperienced, relived, remembered, remindful, reminiscent,
     representation, restored, retentive, retroactive, revived, show,
     showing, suggestive, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling,
     varnishing day, vernissage