retrospective

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   concerned with or related to the past

   retrospective self-justification

2. 2
   adj

   Of, relating to, or contemplating the past.

   While the pictures of what precisely unfolded after Cissé looked to tread on Evans are not entirely conclusive, the Football Association will surely pore over them on Thursday before quite possibly using video evidence to impose lengthy retrospective bans stemming from an incident unseen by Anthony Taylor, the referee.

3. 3
   noun

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

4. 4
   adj

   Looking backwards.

5. 5
   adj

   Affecting or influencing past things; retroactive.

6. 6
   noun

   An exhibition of works from an extended period of an artist's activity.

Etymology

From retrospect + -ive. From Latin retrōspectus, perfect passive participle of retrōspiciō (“to look back at”).