retrospect
English
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from Latin retrōspectum, from retrōspicio (“to look back at”). Compare review.
Pronunciation
Noun
retrospect (plural retrospects)
- 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, 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.
- Antonym: prospect
- 1853, Charlotte Bronte, "Villette":
Derived terms
Translations
consideration of past times
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Verb
retrospect (third-person singular simple present retrospects, present participle retrospecting, simple past and past participle retrospected)
- 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.