Entry Word: review

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a usually critical look at a past event <a review of yesterdayʼs football game gave us a lot of good ideas on how to improve for the next one>

Synonyms reappraisal, reconsideration, reexamination, retrospect, retrospection

Related Words recap, recapitulation, rehash

Near Antonyms preview

2 a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition <took the car to her mechanic for a complete mechanical review before she decided to sell it> — see inspection
3 a publication that appears at regular intervals <had his poetry published in a literary review> — see journal
4 an essay evaluating or analyzing something <a harsh movie review of an expected summer blockbuster> — see criticism