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retrospect Definition

retro·spect (re′trə spekt′)

noun

a looking back on or thinking about things past; contemplation or survey of the past

Etymology: < L retrospectus, pp. of retrospicere, to look back < retro-, back + specere, to look: see spy

intransitive verb

Rare to look back in thought or refer back (to)

transitive verb

Rare to look or think back on

retrospect Idioms

in retrospect

in reviewing the past

retrospect Synonyms

retrospect

n.

hindsight, remembering, recollection, looking back; see memory 1, review 1.

retrospect Usage Examples

Possessives

  • technology: Retrospect's patented technology provides relaible, accurate restores by compiling a list of files and folders protected during each backup.

Preposition: of

  • work: Retrospect of various works published during the last year, new editions and new works in process.

Converse of object

  • make: Patented technology makes Retrospect easy to administer, and only Retrospect delivers the fastest backups while still providing 100 % accurate restores.

Adjective modifier

  • historical: Dodd, A H. ' Welsh and English in east Denbighshire: a historical retrospect ' .

Modifies a noun

  • Multi: Specifications: Retrospect Multi Server provides licenses to protect an unlimited number of servers and an unlimited number of networked desktops and notebooks.
retrospect Quotes

The Pastöthe dark unfathom'd retrospect! The teeming gulföthe sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

—Whitman,Walt(er)

At the time it is all a confusion; in retrospect†all a blur.

—Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier),Jr

The present is anage of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world isgrowing old.We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.

—Hazlitt,William