retrospect

Other forms of retrospect

plural

retrospects·

past tense

retrospected·

present participle

retrospecting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about retrospect

What does retrospect mean?

retrospect means "contemplation of things past". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in retrospect?

retrospect has 3 syllables: ret-ro-spect. The stress falls on "ret". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛtɹəˌspɛkt/.

What is another word for retrospect?

Close synonyms include review, look back. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is retrospect a common word?

retrospect is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with retrospect?

9 words rhyme with retrospect. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.