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retrospective

[ re-truh-spek-tiv ]

adjective

  1. directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
  2. looking or directed backward.
  3. retroactive, as a statute.


noun

  1. an art exhibit showing an entire phase or representative examples of an artist's lifework.
  2. any exhibition or series of showings or performances, as of musical works or motion pictures, representing the work of an artist or performer over all or a major part of a career:

    a retrospective of John Ford's movies.

retrospective

/ ˌɛٰəʊˈɛɪ /

adjective

  1. looking or directed backwards, esp in time; characterized by retrospection
  2. applying to the past; retroactive
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an exhibition of an artist's life's work or a representative selection of it
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌٰˈ𳦳پԱ, noun
  • ˌٰˈ𳦳پ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • r·t· adverb
  • r·t·Ա noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of retrospective1

First recorded in 1655–65; retrospect + -ive
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Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

There was recently a show at the Pompidou Center, a really exhaustive retrospective of Surrealism.

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Andrew Kennedy KC has been appointed by the trust to chair a panel of expert clinicians to undertake the external retrospective clinical review.

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That fact has been unmistakable since 1976, when Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts sparked the general revival of interest in his work with the artist’s first full retrospective exhibition in the U.S.

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They are retrospective but don’t rue the passage of time.

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City insisted the league's proposed changes "would introduce into the rules a retrospective exemption for shareholder loans... one of the very things that was found to be illegal in the recent arbitration".

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