retrospective
Use Retrospective in a sentence
trəˈspɛk adjective
1.
directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
2.
looking or directed backward.
3.
retroactive, as a statute.
noun
4.
an art exhibit showing an entire phase or representative examples of an artist's lifework.
5.
any exhibition or series of showings or performances, as of musical works or motion pictures, representing the work of an artist or performer over all or a major part of a career: a retrospective of John Ford's movies.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Related forms
ret·ro·spec·tive·ly, adverb
ret·ro·spec·tive·ness, noun
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retrospective (ˌrɛtrəʊˈspɛktɪv) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | looking or directed backwards, esp in time; characterized by retrospection |
| 2. | applying to the past; retroactive |
| —n | |
| 3. | an exhibition of an artist's life's work or a representative selection of it |
| retro'spectively | |
| —adv | |
| retro'spectiveness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Unfortunately for critics, publishers have provided fresh fodder for book reviews and retrospective essays.
Various proposals have been put forward to pay retrospective rewards to such well-behaved countries.
Teenage pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes: a large population based retrospective cohort study.
Not less important-and for retrospective reasons too-is the complicated verse-form.
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