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retrospect — Synonyms and related words: afterthought, bring back, bring to mind, call back, call to mind, call up, cite, commitment to memory, conjure up, evoke, exercise of memory, flashback, go back, go back over, hark back, hindsight, learning by heart,… … Moby Thesaurus
Retrospect — Re tro*spect, v. i. [L. retrospicere; retro back + specere, spectum, to look. See {Spy}, and cf. {Expect}.] To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past. [1913 Webster] It may be useful to retrospect to an early period. A. Hamilton … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
retrospect — [re′trə spekt΄] n. [< L retrospectus, pp. of retrospicere, to look back < retro , back + specere, to look: see SPY] a looking back on or thinking about things past; contemplation or survey of the past vi. Rare to look back in thought or… … English World dictionary
retrospect — c.1600, from L. retrospectum, pp. of retrospicere look back, from retro back (see RETRO (Cf. retro )) + specere look at (see SCOPE (Cf. scope) (1)) … Etymology dictionary
Retrospect (software) — For other uses, see Retrospect (disambiguation). Retrospect is a family of backup software applications for the Mac OS, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Its maker Dantz Development Corporation was acquired by EMC Corporation in… … Wikipedia
retrospect — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. reminiscence, remembrance, retrospection, review. See memory. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. hindsight, remembering, recollection, looking back; see memory 1 , review 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n.… … English dictionary for students
in retrospect — in retrospect, we can see that more guards should have been installed at the front gate Syn: looking back, on reflection, on reexamination, in/with hindsight … Thesaurus of popular words
mind — Synonyms and related words: Mnemosyne, affect memory, aim, ambition, ambivalent, anima, anima humana, animadvert, animus, anterograde memory, appetence, appetency, appetite, aptitude, ardor, aspiration, assumption, astral body, astuteness,… … Moby Thesaurus
call up — Synonyms and related words: annoy, ape, appear like, approach, approximate, arouse, assemblage, assembly, awake, awaken, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, beat the drums, bid come, blow the coals, blow up, bring about, bring back, bring… … Moby Thesaurus
conjure up — Synonyms and related words: bid come, bring back, bring to mind, call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in, call out, call to mind, call together, call up, call up spirits, cite, conjure, conjure up spirits, convene, convoke,… … Moby Thesaurus
