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Definition of Retrospective
Retrospective
Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.

Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective law.

Related Definitions:
Affecting, As, Backward, Contemplating, Having, Is, Law, Looking, Opposed, Past, Prospective, Reference, Retroactive, Retrospective, To, View, What






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I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.
Tracey Emin

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
Richard Le Gallienne

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.
George Crumb

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
Robert Peel

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Robert G. Menzies



Retrospective Translations
retrospective in Spanish is retrospectivo
retrospective in Swedish is retroaktiv


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