Definitions for: 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"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: ex post facto, retro, retroactive

Antonyms: prospective

See Also: art exhibition, backward

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