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Definitions for: Retrospective [n] an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
[adj] concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective self-justification"
Webster (1913) Definition: Re`tro*spec"tive, a. [Cf. F. r['e]trospectif.]
1. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to
prospective; as, a retrospective view.
The sage, with retrospective eye. --Pope.
2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past;
retroactive; as, a retrospective law.
Inflicting death by a retrospective enactment.
--Macaulay.
Synonyms: ex post facto, retro, retroactive
Antonyms: prospective
See Also: art exhibition, backward
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