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retrospective

3 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) retrospective (adjective)
  2. 2) retrospective (noun)
  3. retrospective rate (noun)

1ret·ro·spec·tive

adj \-ˈspek-tiv\

Definition of RETROSPECTIVE

1
a (1) : of, relating to, or given to retrospection (2) : based on memory <a retrospective report> b : being a retrospective <a retrospective exhibition>
2
: affecting things past : retroactive <retrospective laws>
3
: relating to or being a study (as of a disease) that starts with the present condition of a population of individuals and collects data about their past history to explain their present condition
— ret·ro·spec·tive·ly adverb
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Examples of RETROSPECTIVE

  1. They issued a retrospective report.
  2. a retrospective analysis of what went wrong
  3. The museum is having a retrospective exhibit of the artist's early works.

First Known Use of RETROSPECTIVE

1664

Rhymes with RETROSPECTIVE

cost-effective, house detective, imperfective, ineffective, intellective, introspective, nondirective, nonobjective, self-reflective, unselective

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