Retrospect
['retrəspekt] or ['rɛtrəspɛkt]
Definition
(v. i.) To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.
(n.) A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.
Typist: Randall
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Review, re-survey.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Review, survey, recollection, reminiscence, reconsideration
ANT:Prognostication, anticipation, speculation, forecasting, prophecy, prospect
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Definition
n. a looking back: a contemplation of the past: the past.—n. Retrospec′tion the act or faculty of looking back on the past.—adj. Retrospec′tive.—adv. Retrospec′tively.
Typist: Melville
Examples
- The reality that is worthy of attention is a change in the very texture and quality of millions of lives--a change that will be vividly perceptible only in the retrospect of history. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- ANOTHER RETROSPECT I must pause yet once again. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Her firm spirit had not found relief in tears, and she suffered the more from all the painful retrospect and agonizing regret that now occupied her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The retrospect is now complete. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Seen in the retrospect, the struggle for the goal at this moment was one of the memorable incidents in electrical history. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With such a retrospect, the sage of the Nineteenth Century may lie down to quiet rest, with an assuring faith that what God hath wrought is good, and what is not may yet be. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- ANOTHER RETROSPECT Once again, let me pause upon a memorable period of my life. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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