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. Robby Mook:

   Hillary Clinton said on the campaign trail it was a mistake to have the personal email server. I think what's, in retrospect, incredibly ironic and deeply frustrating to a lot of us is that Director Comey felt entitled to go in front of the country, unauthorized, and lecture Secretary Clinton about Hillary Clinton use when it turns out Director Comey was doing the same thing.

2. Robert Louis Stephenson:

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

3. Woodrow Wilson:

   No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

4. Paul Theroux:

   Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

5. Former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling:

   In retrospect, I regret all of it, all the way back to seeing the city move to a different drinking water source. You can't put a dollar amount of the devastation to our community, our kids, and it was completely avoidable.