Word Meanings - RETROSPECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past. It may be useful to retrospect to an early period. A. Hamilton.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RETROSPECT)
- Memory
- Remembrance
- reminiscence
- perpetuation
- recollection
- retention
- retrospect
- fame
- Review
- Resurvey
- reconsideration
- revisal
- re-examination
- critique
- criticism
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RETROSPECT)
Related words: (words related to RETROSPECT)
- DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - DISMISSIVE
Giving dismission. - RETROSPECT
A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past. Cowper. We may introduce a song without retrospect to the old comedy. Landor. - DISMISSAL
Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley. - REVIEW
Etym: 1. To view or see again; to look back on "I shall review Sicilia." Shak. 2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. To go - REVIEWABLE
Capable of being reviewed. - DISMISS
1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden. - RETROSPECTIVE
1. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view. The sage, with retrospective eye. Pope. 2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective - OVERLOOK
1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did - REVIEWER
One who reviews or reëxamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books. - DISREGARD
Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore. - RECOLLECTION
1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which - REVISAL
The act of revising, or reviewing and reëxamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty. - PERPETUATION
The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance. Sir T. Browne. - DISCARDURE
Rejection; dismissal. Hayter. - DISCARD
The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded. - RESURVEY
To survey again or anew; to review. Shak. - RETENTION
The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien. Erskine. Craig. Retention cyst , a cyst produced by obstruction of a duct leading from a secreting organ - DISREGARDFUL
Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless. - DISREGARDER
One who disregards. - UNREMEMBRANCE
Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts. - HYPERCRITICISM
Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism. - MISRECOLLECTION
Erroneous or inaccurate recollection. - NEOCRITICISM
The form of Neo-Kantianism developed by French idealists, following C. Renouvier. It rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories. - ONEIROCRITICISM; ONEIROCRITICS
The art of interpreting dreams. - IRRETENTION
Want of retaining power; forgetfulness. De Quincey.