retrospect
noun/ˈretrəspekt/
/ˈretrəspekt/
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from retro- ‘back’, on the pattern of the noun prospect.
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See retrospect in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee retrospect in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishin retrospect
- thinking about a past event or situation, often with a different opinion of it from the one you had at the time
- In retrospect, I think that I was wrong.
- The decision seems extremely odd, in retrospect.
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