Synonyms for retrospect
ˈrɛ trəˌspɛktret·ro·spect

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1. retrospectnoun

   Antonyms:
   prospect

2. retrospectnoun

   To look or refer back to; to reflect on

   Antonyms:
   prospect

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1. retrospect

   Memory is the faculty by which knowledge is retained or recalled; in a more general sense, memory is a retention of knowledge within the grasp of the mind, while remembrance is the having what is known consciously before the mind. Remembrance may be voluntary or involuntary; a thing is brought to remembrance or we call it to remembrance; the same is true of memory. Recollection involves volition, the mind making a distinct effort to recall something, or fixing the attention actively upon it when recalled. Reminiscence is a half-dreamy memory of scenes or events long past; retrospection is a distinct turning of the mind back upon the past, bringing long periods under survey. Retrospection is to reminiscence much what recollection is to remembrance.

   Synonyms:
   memory, recollection, remembrance, reminiscence, retrospection

   Antonyms:
   forgetfulness, oblivion, obliviousness, oversight, unconsciousness

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1. retrospect

   Synonyms:
   review, survey, recollection, reminiscence, reconsideration

   Antonyms:
   prognostication, anticipation, speculation, forecasting, prophecy, prospect

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1. retrospectverb

   contemplation of things past

   "in retrospect"

2. review, look back, retrospectverb

   look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember

   "she reviewed her achievements with pride"

   Synonyms:
   look backward, look back, refresh, survey, go over, brush up, critique, review, reexamine

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1. retrospectnoun

   Synonyms:
   review, re-survey

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1. List of paraphrases for "retrospect":

   retrospective, hindsight, posteriori

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1. Staff Adm. Mike Mullen:

   I think in retrospect, yeah we should have( left)... I don't think it was possible for us to just abruptly walk away right after we killed bin Laden, but clearly we could have earlier than we did.

2. Hillary Clinton:

   In retrospect, this didn't turn out to be convenient at all and I regret that this has become such a cause celebre. But that does not change the facts, the facts are stubborn -- what I did was legally permitted.

3. Malcolm Muggeridge:

   In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

4. Robert Louis Stephenson:

   The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.