Thesaurus: retrospective

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1. a. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.
2. a. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective law.
3. adj. concerned with or related to the past
4. n. an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
5. 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.
6. j:93/n:7 n. an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work a. concerned with or related to the past