retrospect
11retrospect — [[t]re̱trəspekt[/t]] PHRASE: PHR with cl When you consider something in retrospect, you think about it afterwards, and often have a different opinion about it from the one that you had at the time. In retrospect, I wish that I had thought about… …
12retrospect — noun (U) in retrospect thinking back to a time in the past, especially with the advantage of knowing more now than you did then: In retrospect, it was the wrong time to set up a new company. | My teenage years seem happier in retrospect than they …
13retrospect — Synonyms and related words: afterthought, bring back, bring to mind, call back, call to mind, call up, cite, commitment to memory, conjure up, evoke, exercise of memory, flashback, go back, go back over, hark back, hindsight, learning by heart,… …
14retrospect — n. in retrospect * * * [ retrəspekt] in retrospect …
15retrospect — ret|ro|spect [ˈretrəspekt] n [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: retro + spect (as in prospect)] in retrospect thinking back to a time in the past, especially with the advantage of knowing more now than you did then ▪ In retrospect, I wonder if we should… …
16retrospect — ret|ro|spect [ retrouspekt ] noun in retrospect considering something that happened in the past, using knowledge or information that you did not have at that time: In retrospect, we should never have allowed that to happen …
17retrospect — [ˈretrəʊˌspekt] noun in retrospect used for saying that, when you think about a situation in the past, you would have done something differently if you had known then what you know now[/ex] In retrospect, I should have told her the truth.[/ex] …
18retrospect — /ˈrɛtrəspɛkt / (say retruhspekt) noun 1. contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc. –verb (i) 2. Rare to look back in thought. –verb (t) 3. Rare to look back upon, contemplate, or think of (something past). –phrase 4. in… …
19retrospect — 1. noun /ˈrɛtroˌspɛkt/ consideration of past times My mind, calmer and stronger now than last night, made for itself some imperious rules, prohibiting under deadly penalties all weak retrospect of happiness past; commanding a patient journeying… …
20retrospect — noun a survey or review of a past course of events or period of time. Phrases in retrospect when looking back on a past event or situation; with hindsight. Derivatives retrospection noun Origin C17: from retro , on the pattern of prospect …
