retrospective

[Re`tro*spec·tive]

Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective law.

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Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.

Noun
an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist''s life work

Adjective
concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective self-justification"


a.
Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.

a.
Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective law.


Retrospective

Re`tro*spec"tive , a. [Cf. F. r'82trospectif.] 1. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.
The sage, with retrospective eye.
2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective law.
Inflicting death by a retrospective enactment.

Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.

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Usage Examples

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

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Other Usage Examples

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

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