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Definitions: Retrospect |
RetrospectNoun1. Contemplation of things past; "in retrospect". Verb1. Look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events, etc.); remember; "she reviewed her achievements with pride". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "retrospect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonyms: RetrospectSynonyms: look back (v), review (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Memory | Reminiscence, recognition, recollection, rememoration; recurrence, flashback; retrospect, retrospection. |
The Past | Retrospect, retrospection, looking back, memory. -- originally - preterition; priority; -- |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Retrospect |
| English words defined with "retrospect": a bit much ♦ Commission of review ♦ de trop ♦ Retro- ♦ too much. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "retrospect": claw-back ♦ Genius From Mars Technique. (references) |
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Robert Louis Stevenson | The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. |
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Andy Rooney | Well, I don't know. They have got to pull themselves together. I don't know what it was. Al Gore, in retrospect, seems to have been a disaster, and George W. Bush is a very appealing person, and he's appealing to a great many Americans. |
Madonna | I mean, truthfully, I didn't accept my stepmother when I was growing up. In that retrospect, I think I was really hard on her. |
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Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | But to me, my fellow-citizens, looking forward to the far-distant future with ardent prayers and confiding hopes, this retrospect presents a ground for still deeper delight. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | Retrospect will be a safer basis of judgment than promises. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | This is not the time for retrospect. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | If we act imaginatively and boldly, as we acted then, this period will in retrospect be seen as one of the great creative moments of our Nation's history. |
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| "Retrospect" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.24% of the time. "Retrospect" is used about 397 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.24% | 394 | 14,131 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.76% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 397 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "retrospect": in retrospect ♦ in the retrospect. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "retrospect"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prapavështrim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نظرة للماضي, إستعادة الأحداث الماضية, إستعاد الاحداث, إستذكار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | преглед на миналото, премислям минали събития, поглеждам назад (look round), поглед към миналото. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 回顾 (review). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | retrospektiva (flash back, flashback), pohled zpìt (backward glance, retrospection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پس نگری , پس نگرانه , مسیرقهقراءی , نگاه به گذشته , عطف بماسبق کننده , شامل گذشته . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jälkikatsaus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | reconstituer (reconstitute, reconstruct, retrace), rétrospection (retrospection), coup d'œil rétrospectif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rückblickend (retrospective). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανασκόπηση (retrospection, review, survey), αναδρομική εξέταση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | להביט לאחור, להסתכל בשעבר (look backwards). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszatekintés (retrospection), visszapillantás (flashback, retrospection, review). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | peninjauan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | esame retrospettivo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 遡上 (going upstream, retroact). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そじょう (brief, complaint, going upstream, on the chopping board, petition, retroact). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 회고 (recall, Recollecting, retrospective). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cooyl-reayrtys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etrospectray retrospecto, exame retrospectivo (retrospection), atenção a precedente. (various references) retrospectivã (retrospection). (various references) взгляд назад. (various references) retrospektivan (retrospective), retrospektiva (retrospection). (various references) retrospección (retrospection), mirada retrospectiva. (various references) återblick (backsight, flashback, review). (various references) geçmişi düşünme, geçmişe bakma. (various references) звертання до минулого (ascent, retrospection), погляд назад. (various references) sự hồi tưởng quá khứ. (various references) adolwg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "retrospect": retrospected, retrospecting, retrospection, retrospections, retrospective, retrospectively, retrospectives, retrospects. (additional references) | |
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"Retrospect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Metrotect, retrospec, retrtospect. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "retrospect" (pronounced re"truspe'kt) |
| 8 | -t r u s p e' k t | introspect. |
| 5 | -s p e' k t | aspect, circumspect. |
| 4 | -p e' k t | henpecked. |
| 3 | -e' k t | aftereffect, architect, dialect, insect, intellect, prefect, transect. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-o-p-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: potterers, protester, receptors. | |
-2 letters: erectors, potterer, prescore, proettes, protects, receptor, secretor, treetops. | |
-3 letters: copters, cotters, erector, pertest, petters, porrect, porters, potters, presort, prester, pretest, pretors, proette, prosect, protect, protest, recepts, rectors, reports, reposer, rescore, respect, restore, retorts, rosette, rotters, scepter, sceptre, specter, spectre, sporter, spotter, stertor, tercets, terrets, treetop. | |
-4 letters: certes, copers, copter, corers. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-o-p-r-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: protectress, retrospects. | |
+2 letters: interceptors, overprotects, protectories, retrospected, spectrometer, spectrometry. | |
+3 letters: electrotypers, exteroceptors, interoceptors, protectorates, protectresses, retrospecting, retrospection, retrospective, spectrometers, spectrometric, triceratopses. | |
+4 letters: counterprotest, petrochemistry, photoreceptors, preconstructed, retrospections, retrospectives, spectrometries. | |
+5 letters: counterprojects, counterprotests, overprotections, retrospectively, thermoreceptors. | |
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