retrospect

Speech parts

1. retrospect - Noun

2. retrospect - Verb

To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.

A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.

Source: Webster's dictionary

review look back remembrance study memory mind survey retain remember revision recall revive cite remind remembering

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prospect forget foresight prophesy prescience forethought

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Paul Theroux

I believe that no endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect. Edward Teller

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. Robert Frost

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. Robert Louis Stevenson

Evil is obvious only in retrospect. Gloria Steinem

In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended. Gottfried Helnwein