Definitions for retrospect

retrospect ret·ro·spect

Spelling: [re-truh-spekt]
IPA: /ˈrɛ trəˌspɛkt/

Retrospect is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 495 anagrams from letters in retrospect (ceeoprrstt).

Definitions for retrospect

noun

  1. contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.

Idioms

  1. in retrospect, in looking back on past events; upon reflection:

verb (used with object)

  1. to look back upon; contemplate retrospectively.

verb (used without object)

  1. to look back in thought; refer back (often followed by to):

Origin of retrospect

1595-1605; probably retro- + (pro)spect

Examples for retrospect

Yet now in the retrospect, it seems hardly to have been the retreat for an invalid.

He struck many people there, at the time, not in retrospect, as arrogant and cold.

Somehow her parts seemed always to dwindle this way in retrospect.

“In retrospect, I think we were both surprised,” recalled Singh.

“Only in retrospect did we appreciate our good fortune in being part of a utopian experiment in American journalism,” she writes.

In retrospect, 2009 and 2010 were halcyon days in the Middle East, now that we seem just one horseman short of an apocalypse.

The view of the future was as dreadful as the retrospect of the past.

It was a mournful pull ashore, and tragic in the retrospect.

To say this is not to ignore its radical character, especially in retrospect.

He racked his brain for a stray gleam of retrospect, but it was not forthcoming.

Word Value for retrospect
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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