Crossword-Solution: RETROSPECTIVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Retrospective | a. | Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view. |
| Retrospective | a. | Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective law. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RETROSPECTIVE | anagram | RETROSEPCTIVE |
We have 14 clues for the answer “RETROSPECTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Contemplating the past. | 1 answer |
| Looking back on past events | 1 answer |
| remembering | 2 answers |
| Looking backward | 2 answers |
| Recalling | 5 answers |
| reminding | 5 answers |
| looking back | 6 answers |
| reminiscent | 7 answers |
| AN EXHIBITION OF A REPRESENTATIVE SELECTION OF AN ARTIST'S LIFE WORK | 11 answers |
| evocative | 16 answers |
| Back (out) | 64 answers |
| Mindful | 64 answers |
| Backward | 80 answers |
| Back up | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RETROSPECTIVE (5)
MICHELSON summarized this section on interpretation and analysis by noting that: 1) increasing numbers of humanities scholars in the library community are recognizing the importance to the advancement of scholarship of retrospective conversion of source materials in the arts and humanities; and 2) there is a growing realization that making the sources available on research and education networks maximizes their usefulness for the analysis performed by humanities scholars.
Then, as she remained silent, and seemed to be losing herself in retrospective meditation upon her perfect respectability, he ventured upon a short cut to his goal.
There seemed to flash through these words a sort of retrospective confession which told him something that she had never directly told him.
His vanity found a retrospective enjoyment in the sentiment his heart had rejected, and this factitious emotion drove him once or twice to Hillbridge, whence, after scenes of evasive tenderness, he returned dissatisfied with himself and her.
But Fraser Leath had grown so unimportant a factor in the scheme of things that these marks of his presence caused the young man no emotion beyond that of a faint retrospective amusement.
Quotes with RETROSPECTIVE (3)
Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation.
Hold a retrospective approach in your spirit to figure out your loopholes and try to forge out for filling them for a lucrative self growth
When I say that deciding to not kill myself was the worst part, I should clarify that I don’t mean it in a retrospective sense. From where I am now, it seems like a solid enough decision. But at the time, it felt like I had been dragging myself through the most miserable, endless wasteland, and — far in the distance — I had seen the promising glimmer of a slightly less miserable wasteland.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1949–1985).