Retrospect

Noun
retrospect


 * 1) consideration of past times
 * 2) * 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...
 * 1) * 1976, Terry Kay, The Year the Lights Came On, 1989 University of Georgia Press edition, ISBN 0820311286, 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.

Verb
retrospect


 * 1) To look or refer back to; to reflect on
 * 2) * 1804: Alexander Hamilton, Letter to John Adams (Bartlett) - To give a correct idea of the circumstances.., it may be useful to retrospect to an early period.

Adjectives for Retrospect
widening; melancholy; drowsy; foregoing; deep; briefest; gratifying; entertaining.

Thesaurus
afterthought, bring back, bring to mind, call back, call to mind, call up, cite, commitment to memory, conjure up, evoke, exercise of memory, flashback, go back, go back over, hark back, hindsight, learning by heart, look back, looking back, memoir, memorization, memorizing, mind, recall, recall to mind, recalling, recapture, recollect, recollecting, recollection, reconsideration, reevoke, reflect, reflection, remember, remembering, remembrance, remind, reminisce, reminiscence, retain, retrace, retrospection, review, review in retrospect, revision, revive, rote, rote memory, see in retrospect, study, summon up, think back, think of, use hindsight

Etymology
retrospectum:, from retrospicio:.

Noun

 * Basque: iraganera begiratze, atzera begiratze
 * Finnish: jälkikäteistarkastelu, katsaus menneeseen


 * German: Rückblick, Rückschau
 * Scottish Gaelic: ath-bheachd

Antonyms

 * prospect

Derived terms

 * in retrospect