| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ret·ro·spect |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r t r -spkt |
| NOUN: | A review, survey, or contemplation of things in the past. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: ret·ro·spect·ed, ret·ro·spect·ing, ret·ro·spects
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To contemplate the past. 2. To refer back. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To look back on or contemplate (things past). | | IDIOM: | in retrospect Looking backward or reviewing the past. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Latin *retr spectus, past participle of retrspicere, to look back at : retr-, retro- + specere, to look at; see spek- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | retro·spection —NOUN
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