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RETROSPECTIVE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("retrospective" is a kind of...):

art exhibition (an exhibition of art objects (paintings or statues))

Derivation:

retrospective (concerned with or related to the past)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Concerned with or related to the past

Example:

retrospective self-justification

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

ex post facto; retro; retroactive (affecting things past)

Also:

backward (directed or facing toward the back or rear)

Antonym:

prospective (of or concerned with or related to the future)

Derivation:

retrospect (look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember)

retrospective (an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work)

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