retrospective
/ret-ruh-SPEK-tiv/adjectivelooking back on the past; an exhibition of an artist's past work
“The museum mounted a retrospective of her forty-year career.”
- Synonyms
- backward-looking, reflective
- Antonyms
- prospective
- Root
- spec- (look)
- Memory hook
- retro (back) + spect (look): looking back.
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