1 thinking about or connected with sth that happened in the past:
She felt a pang of retrospective sympathy for Mel.
2 (also less frequent, formal retroactive) (of a new law or decision) intended to take effect from a particular date in the past rather than from the present date:
retrospective legislation * retrospective pay awards
retrospectively adverb:
She wrote retrospectively about her childhood. * The new rule will be applied retrospectively.
noun a public EXHIBITION of the work that an artist has done in the past, showing how his or her work has developed:
a major retrospective of Georgia O'Keeffe
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