Antonyms for retrospect
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : re-truh-spekt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛ trəˌspɛkt |
Definition of retrospect
Origin :- c.1600, "a regard or reference" (to something), from Latin retrospectum, past participle of retrospicere "look back," from retro- "back" (see retro-) + specere "look at" (see scope (n.1)). Meaning "survey of past events" is from 1660s.
- noun afterthought
- The view of the future was as dreadful as the retrospect of the past.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Somehow her parts seemed always to dwindle this way in retrospect.
- Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
- It was a mournful pull ashore, and tragic in the retrospect.
- Extract from : « Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas » by Lloyd Osbourne
- He racked his brain for a stray gleam of retrospect, but it was not forthcoming.
- Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson
- Yet now in the retrospect, it seems hardly to have been the retreat for an invalid.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- Recent Paris and Calcutta retrospect chides his dullness of perception.
- Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee
- Indeed he had succeeded in reality, as well as in retrospect, in evading his grief.
- Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
- It was seen plainly in retrospect; he had not noticed it much at the time.
- Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope
- She smiled in retrospect; it would have been pardonable if Neeld had smiled too.
- Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope
- Most of us retrospect or anticipate and so lose the present.
- Extract from : « The Damsel and the Sage » by Elinor Glyn
Synonyms for retrospect
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