Antonyms 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

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

   Antonyms:
   forgetfulness, oblivion, obliviousness, oversight, unconsciousness

   Synonyms:
   memory, recollection, remembrance, reminiscence, retrospection

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. retrospect

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

   Synonyms:
   review, survey, recollection, reminiscence, reconsideration

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

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

How to use retrospect in a sentence?

1. Hillary Clinton:

   I take classification seriously. I relied on and had every reason to rely on the judgments of the professionals with whom I worked. And so, in retrospect, maybe some people are saying, ‘Well, … among those 300 people, they made the wrong call,’ at the time, there was no reason, in my view, to doubt the professionalism and the determination by the people who work every single day on behalf of our country.

2. Hunter Biden:

   In retrospect, look, I think that it was poor judgment on my part ... I gave a hook to some very unethical people to act in illegal ways to try to do some harm to my father. That's where I made the mistake, so I take full responsibility for that. Did I do anything improper? No, not in any way.

3. Michael Franks:

   It's hard for me to talk about, i'm Michael Franks, I think anyone would have done that, but I know maybe in retrospect, maybe not.

4. Douglas MacArthur:

   The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

5. Mark Esper:

   In retrospect I would have used different wording.

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