What Does Retrospect Mean?

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Definitions for retrospectˈrɛ trəˌspɛktret·ro·spect

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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. retrospectverb

   contemplation of things past

   "in retrospect"

2. review, look back, retrospectverb

   look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember

   "she reviewed her achievements with pride"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. retrospectnoun

   consideration of past times

2. retrospectverb

   To look or refer back to; to reflect on

3. Etymology: retrospectum, from retrospicio.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. RETROSPECTnoun

   Look thrown upon things behind or things past.

   Etymology: retro and specio, Lat.

   As you arraign his majesty by retrospect, so you condemn his government by second sight. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 9.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. retrospect

   Retrospect is the act or process of thinking back or looking back on past events, situations or decisions. It involves reviewing and contemplating past actions, experiences, or decisions to gain a better understanding, learn lessons, or remember specific details.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Retrospectverb

   to look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past

2. Retrospectnoun

   a looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past

3. Etymology: [L. retrospicere; retro back + specere, spectum, to look. See Spy, and cf. Expect.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Retrospect

   ret′rō-spekt, or rē′-, n. a looking back: a contemplation of the past: the past.—n. Retrospec′tion, the act or faculty of looking back on the past.—adj. Retrospec′tive.—adv. Retrospec′tively. [L. retrospectus, pa.p. of retrospicĕre—retro, back, specĕre, to look.]

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How to pronounce retrospect?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of retrospect in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of retrospect in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of retrospect in a Sentence

1. James Comey:

   It was a hard choice, I still believe in retrospect the right choice, i can't consider for a second whose political fortunes will be affected.

2. Bill Dudley:

   They were very, very late in removing monetary policy accommodation, that's going to turn out, in retrospect, to be a bit of a policy mistake.

3. Douglas MacArthur:

   The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

4. Donald Trump:

   I probably, you know, in retrospect, I should have, and I did last year, and I will virtually every year, but we had come in very later at night and I had just left, literally, the American cemetery in Paris and I really probably assumed that was fine, and I was extremely busy because of affairs of state doing other things.

5. Trump Jr.:

   In retrospect, I probably would have done things a little differently, for me, this was opposition research.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNethttp://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=retrospect
2. ^ Wiktionaryhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Retrospect
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionaryhttps://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=retrospect
4. ^ ChatGPThttps://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionaryhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retrospect
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionaryhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=retrospect
7. ^ Usage in printed sourceshttps://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=retrospect

Translations for retrospect

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• استذكارArabic
• Rückblick, RückschauGerman
• retrospect - retrospectivaSpanish
• iraganera begiratze, atzera begiratzeBasque
• jälkikäteistarkasteluFinnish
• coup d'œil rétrospectif, rétrospectionFrench
• sealltainn air ais, ath-bheachdScottish Gaelic
• דיעבדHebrew
• बीती बातों की जांचHindi
• 遡上, 回顧Japanese
• взгляд в прошлое, взгляд назад, ретроспективный взглядRussian

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