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retrospective
[ re-truh-spek-tiv ]
adjective
- directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
- looking or directed backward.
- retroactive, as a statute.
noun
- an art exhibit showing an entire phase or representative examples of an artist's lifework.
- any exhibition or series of showings or performances, as of musical works or motion pictures, representing the work of an artist or performer over all or a major part of a career:
a retrospective of John Ford's movies.
retrospective
/ ˌɛٰəʊˈɛɪ /
adjective
- looking or directed backwards, esp in time; characterized by retrospection
- applying to the past; retroactive
noun
- an exhibition of an artist's life's work or a representative selection of it
Derived Forms
- ˌٰˈپԱ, noun
- ˌٰˈپ, adverb
Other Word Forms
- r·t· adverb
- r·t·Ա noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of retrospective1
Example Sentences
These studies were retrospective, meaning they were conducted after the psychedelics were already taken.
He described the tour, My Life In Musicals - I Know Him So Well, as a "retrospective of my fortune and experience in the musical theatre world".
The hoarding tendencies of the self-proclaimed nerd have resulted in 165 visual and audio art exhibitions, including his traveling retrospective, “Myopia.”
Hopps was a wealth of information about Dada godfather Marcel Duchamp, whose now legendary 1963 retrospective he had organized for the Pasadena Art Museum.
There was recently a show at the Pompidou Center, a really exhaustive retrospective of Surrealism.
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