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RETROSPECT: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for RETROSPECT?

Need another word that means the same as “retrospect”? Find 2 synonyms and 30 related words for “retrospect” in this overview.

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Retrospect as a Verb
Definitions of "Retrospect" as a verb
Synonyms of "Retrospect" as a verb (2 Words)
Associations of "Retrospect" (30 Words)

The synonyms of “Retrospect” are: look back, review

Retrospect as a Verb

Definitions of "Retrospect" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “retrospect” as a verb can have the following definitions:

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

Synonyms of "Retrospect" as a verb (2 Words)

look back	Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
review	Hold a review of troops. All slides were then reviewed by one pathologist.

Associations of "Retrospect" (30 Words)

ago	Gone by; or in the past. Agone is an archaic word for ago.
anachronism	The action of attributing something to a period to which it does not belong. The town is a throwback to medieval times an anachronism* that has survived the passing years.*
atavism	A reappearance of an earlier characteristic. The more civilized a society seems to be the more susceptible it is to its buried atavism.
back	At or to or toward the back or rear. The back* of a postcard.*
backslide	Drop to a lower level, as in one’s morals or standards. There are many things that can cause slimmers to backslide.
backward	(of a fielding position) behind an imaginary line passing through the stumps at the batsman’s end at right angles to the wicket. Tripped when he stepped backward.
backwards	At or to or toward the back or rear. A step backwards* for the economy.*
confess	Confess to God in the presence of a priest as in the Catholic faith. 150 people confessed faith in Christ.
converse	Of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other. She was withdrawn and preoccupied hardly able to converse* with her mother.*
counterproductive	Tending to hinder the achievement of a goal. Child experts fear the Executive s plans may prove counterproductive.
degeneration	The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality. Overgrazing has caused serious degeneration* of grassland.*
inverse	A reciprocal quantity, mathematical expression, geometric figure, etc. which is the result of inversion. When the direct approach failed he tried the inverse.
inversion	A transformation in which each point of a given figure is replaced by another point on the same straight line from a fixed point especially in such a way that the product of the distances of the two points from the centre of inversion is constant. Administration officials admit that their new effort to deter corporate inversions won t actually stop the practice.
memory	The area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes. Search as he would the memory* was lost.*
past	A past tense or form of a verb. The monuments act as guidelines through the country s colourful past.
posthumous	Occurring or coming into existence after a person’s death. Newton was the posthumous* son of an illiterate yeoman.*
recall	Recall knowledge from memory have a recollection. The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty.
regress	Calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of a variable against or on another variable. They would not regress* to pre technological tribalism.*
regression	A return to an earlier stage of life or a supposed previous life, especially through hypnosis. Regression therapy.
regressive	Adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases. Indirect taxes are as a group regressive.
relapse	Go back to bad behavior. He relapsed into silence.
retreat	Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity. The army was in retreat.
retroactive	Descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously. Retroactive tax increase.
retrograde	Show retrograde motion. All the planets will at some time appear to retrograde.
retrogression	Passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form. A retrogression* to 19th century attitudes.*
retrospective	Concerned with or related to the past. Retrospective self justification.
return	Make a return. His gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return.
reversion	A property to which someone has the right of reversion. The reversion* of property.*
revert	Reply or respond to someone. We texted both Farah and Shirish but neither of them reverted.
throwback	A reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic. The eyes could be an ancestral throwback.