English
retrospect
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈɹɛtɹoˌspɛkt/
Noun

retrospect (plural retrospects)

  1. Consideration of past times.
    • 1853, Charlotte Bronte, "Villette":
      My mind, calmer and stronger now than last night, made for itself some imperious rules, prohibiting under deadly penalties all weak retrospect of happiness past; commanding a patient journeying through the wilderness of the present...
    • 1976, Terry Kay, The Year the Lights Came On, 1989 University of Georgia Press edition, ISBN 0820311286, page 298:
      Whether, like Colin, in retrospect Willie Lee and Baptist would feel that what has vanished was greater than what was achieved, is not something we can predict.
    Antonyms: prospect
Translations Verb

retrospect (retrospects, present participle retrospecting; past and past participle retrospected)

  1. To look or refer back to; to reflect on.
    • 1800: Alexander Hamilton, Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq. President of the United States - To give a correct idea of the circumstances.., it may be useful to retrospect to an early period.


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