retrospect Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun contemplation of things past
    • in retrospect
  2. verb look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember
    review; look back.
    • she reviewed her achievements with pride

WordNet

Re"tro*spect intransitive verb
Etymology
L. retrospicere; retro back + specere, spectum, to look. See Spy, and cf. Expect.
Definitions
  1. To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.
    It may be useful to retrospect to an early period. A. Hamilton.
Re"tro*spect noun
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913