Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Looking back on, contemplating, or directed to the past.
- adjective Looking or directed backward.
- adjective Applying to or influencing the past; retroactive.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a retrospective.
- noun An exhibition or performance of works produced by an artist over a considerable period.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Looking backward; considering the past.
- In law, retroactive; affecting matters which occurred before it was adopted: as, a retrospective act, law, or statute.
- Capable of being looked back to; occurring in the past; bygone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to
prospective . - adjective Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or
contemplating thepast - adjective
looking backwards - adjective
affecting orinfluencing past things;retroactive - noun an
exhibition ofworks from anextended period of anartist 'sactivity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective concerned with or related to the past
- noun an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
Etymologies
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Examples
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My twentieth, and last in this series, book-review retrospective is The Shadow in the River, by Frode Grytten, from May.
Book review Maxine 2009
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My eighth book-review retrospective is The Scent of the Night, the sixth of a wonderful series of books by Andrea Camilleri.
Book review Maxine 2009
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I risked driving through the dangerous weather to get here, and in retrospective I probably shouldn't have.
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My fifth book-review retrospective is from February, and my choice is Sun Storm by Asa Larsson.
Book review Maxine 2009
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The Best of Lucius Shepard, a career retrospective, is now available from Subterranean Press, and next year will see the publication of a new as yet untitled novel.
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So, as a retrospective is it causing the mayhem that you predicted?
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Between 60 and 41 yesterday we included a four-sided memoir of a one-of-a-kind childhood, a big retrospective from a master of the short-short-short story, a delirious trilogy-ender from the Demon Dog himself, a tiny and spellbindingly lovely novel of memory, and a travel tale far smarter than its sexpot cover would lead you to think.
October 2009 2009
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The Best of Lucius Shepard, a career retrospective, is now available from Subterranean Press, and next year will see the publication of a new as yet untitled novel.
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A highlight of the retrospective is "Eldorado/Creation" (2008), in which he captures a new dance piece choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj, featuring a score by Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Surveyor of Our Landscape Kristin M. Jones 2010
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The Best of Lucius Shepard, a career retrospective, is now available from Subterranean Press, and next year will see the publication of a new as yet untitled novel.
October 2009 2009
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