Crossword-Solution: RETROSPECT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retrospect | v. i. | To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past. |
| Retrospect | n. | A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “RETROSPECT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A looking back. | 1 answer |
| Look at the past | 1 answer |
| Survey of the past | 1 answer |
| hindsight | 4 answers |
| looking back | 6 answers |
| THINK back | 6 answers |
| Recollect | 7 answers |
| CONTEMPLATION OF THINGS PAST | 11 answers |
| Afterthought | 22 answers |
| hark back | 24 answers |
| Recollection | 25 answers |
| CALL for review | 26 answers |
| remembrance | 29 answers |
| Cite | 54 answers |
| Pass through | 73 answers |
| Pass on | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RETROSPECT (5)
And he told him this, very strongly, with the hope of rousing him from any despondency or dangerous retrospect towards which he foresaw he might be tending.
She was very fond of the poets and historians, of the picturesque, of the past, of retrospect, of mementos and reverberations of greatness; so that on coming into the English world, where strangeness and familiarity would go hand in hand, she was prepared for a multitude of fresh emotions.
What do you think in retrospect of this misadventure ? My script for "Alien3" was kind of Tarkovskian.
Papeete, February 1914 Retrospect In your arms was still delight, Quiet as a street at night; And thoughts of you, I do remember, Were green leaves in a darkened chamber, Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.
Often have they come round me and taken me by the hand, but alas! I am no more destined to behold them.’ The child who is taken becomes canonised, and the looks of the homeliest babe seem in the retrospect ‘heavenly the three last days of his life.’ But it appears that James and Mary had indeed been children more than usually engaging; a record was preserved a long while in the family of their remarks and ‘little innocent and interesting stories,’ and the blow and the blank were the more sensible.
Quotes with RETROSPECT (3)
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.
To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where phrases like ‘deadly dull’ or ‘excruciatingly dull’ come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some…
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1959–2025).