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retrospect
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ret·ro·spect
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ˈrɛ
trəˌspɛkt
/
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re
-tr
uh
-spekt
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noun
1.
contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
verb (used without object)
2.
to look back in thought; refer back (often followed by
to
):
to retrospect to a period in one's youth.
verb (used with object)
3.
to look back upon; contemplate
retrospectively
.
Idioms
4.
in retrospect,
in looking back on past events; upon reflection:
It was, in retrospect, the happiest day of her life.
Origin:
1595–1605;
probably
retro-
+
(pro)spect
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retrospect
(ˈrɛtrəʊˌspɛkt)
—
n
1.
the act of surveying things past (often in the phrase
in retrospect
)
—
vb
(often foll by
to
)
2.
to contemplate (anything past); look back on (something)
3.
to refer
[C17: from Latin
retrōspicere
to look back, from
retro-
+
specere
to look]
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Word Origin & History
retrospect
c.1600, from L. retrospectum, pp. of retrospicere "look back," from retro- "back" + specere "look at" (see
scope
(1)). Retrospective (adj.) is attested from 1660s; as a noun, it is recorded from 1964, short for retrospective exhibition (1919), etc.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
In
retrospect
, maybe the dearth of scientific references in this article should
have hinted as to its status.
In
retrospect
, your appeal to emotion was also shameless.
In
retrospect
, the real question isn't why lobotomy died, but why it survived
for so long.
It sounds obvious in
retrospect
, but at the time, that was an original idea.
But in
retrospect
, it is clear how time-consuming that work was.
In
retrospect
, any changes in his blood count may have been a reaction to the drugs he was taking.
And late in his college career, he came to cryptography, a discovery that in
retrospect
seems inevitable.
In
retrospect
, the copyright balancing act has survived only because of the imperfections of earlier copying methods.
In
retrospect
, my critique of modern psychiatry was probably too mild.
Yet, in
retrospect
, rarely has an explosion anywhere in the world been so inevitable.
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