Found 2 items, similar to Retrospective.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: retrospective
retrospective
adj : concerned with or related to the past;
“retrospective
self-justification” [ant:
prospective]
retrospective
n : an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's
life work
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Retrospective
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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