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. David Sandberg:

   The story doesn't have to be all the details. But there should be nothing that would be considered a lie in retrospect, it could be a partial story. It could be less technical. But it has to be based in truth. Because once you go down the road of telling a non-truth, then it's very difficult to extricate yourself from that.

2. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie:

   This seems like it was a very tough situation, in retrospect -- and this happens very commonly after a suicide -- you look back and you look back and you see all kinds of red flags or information that one person knew but another person didn't know, and if you put it all together, yes, maybe he should have been hospitalized.

3. 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.

4. Brandon Taubman:

   This past Saturday, during our clubhouse celebration, I used inappropriate language for which I am deeply sorry and embarrassed, in retrospect, I realize that my comments were unprofessional and inappropriate.

5. Douglas MacArthur:

   Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -­ kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor ­- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going 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.