retrospective

1. 1.

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

   Broaderart exhibition

1. 1.

   concerned with or related to the past

   “retrospective self-justification”

   Antonymsprospective

   Similarex post facto

Other forms of retrospective

plural

retrospectives·

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 retrospective

What does retrospective mean?

retrospective means "an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in retrospective?

retrospective has 4 syllables: ret-ro-spec-tive. The stress falls on "spec". In IPA it is /ˌɹɛtɹəˈspɛktɪv/.

What is the opposite of retrospective?

The recorded antonyms are prospective.

Is retrospective a common word?

retrospective is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 retrospective?

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