About The Word Retrospective
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Retrospective
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What's The Definition Of Retrospective?
[n] an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
[adj] concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective self-justification" Synonyms | Synonyms for Retrospective: ex post facto | retro | retroactive Related Terms | Find terms related to Retrospective: See Also | art exhibition | backward Retrospective In Webster's Dictionary \Re`tro*spec"tive\, a. [Cf. F. r['e]trospectif.]
1. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to
prospective; as, a retrospective view.
The sage, with retrospective eye. --Pope.
2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past;
retroactive; as, a retrospective law.
Inflicting death by a retrospective enactment.
--Macaulay.
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