Synonyms for retrospective
ˌrɛ trəˈspɛk tɪvret·ro·spec·tive

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1. retrospectiveadjective

   an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work

   Antonyms:
   future, likely, potential, prospective

2. retrospectiveadjective

   concerned with or related to the past

   "retrospective self-justification"

   Antonyms:
   future, likely, prospective, potential

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1. retrospectiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   looking back

2. retrospectiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   retroactive, that affects the past

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1. List of paraphrases for "retrospective":

   retroactive, hindsight, retrospect, backward-looking, carryback, ex-post, historical

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1. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond:

   I've had a very clear indication from Mr Jaitley...who is clear and categoric that this government will not be issuing any further notices under the retrospective tax legislation.

2. Brian Ginsberg:

   The law has changed, yes. But the retrospective historical fact of whether the NRA and its members did or did not incur compensatory damages has not changed, they could have done that in their initial complaint. They didn't do it. They could have done it in their first amended complaint. They didn't … Nor did they attempt … in their proposed second amended complaint.

3. Eric Schadt:

   We did a retrospective Resilience Project where we looked at 600,000 genomes that we got from a variety of sources, for example, [DNA service] 23andme.

4. Peter Feaver:

   We could well be in a similar position : where the Trump argument is :' we are finally getting the handle on this, do you really want the disruption of a change in administration ?' the answer to that, I think, hinges heavily on whether the President can win the retrospective judgment on,' Were you the one who got us into this mess in the first place ?'.

5. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond:

   The tax demand made to Cairn was very unwelcome, i've had a very clear indication from Mr Jaitley...who is clear and categoric that this government will not be issuing any further notices under the retrospective tax legislation.