Retrospective
[retrə(ʊ)'spektɪv] or [,rɛtrə'spɛktɪv]
Definition
(noun.) an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work.
(adj.) concerned with or related to the past; 'retrospective self-justification' .
Editor: Miles--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Edited by Anselm
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Looking back.[2]. Retroactive, that affects the past.
Edited by Janet
Examples
- Mr Riderhood very slowly and hoarsely chimed in, with several retrospective nods of his head. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They are, therefore, retrospective and resultant, instead of being prospective or prophetic. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Wherein, then, lay the resemblance that made the young man's heart beat with a kind of retrospective excitement? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Typist: Veronica