Retrospective is valid Scrabble Word

Is retrospective a scrabble word?
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13 letters word
20 points in Scrabble
23 points in WWF

Definitions for RETROSPECTIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:

a generally comprehensive exhibition, compilation, or performance of the work of an artist over a span of years
an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist\'s life work

ADJECTIVE:

looking back
(of a statute or legal decision) taking effect from a date in the past
looking back on or dealing with past events or situations
Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.
Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective law.
concerned with or related to the past
(of an exhibition or compilation) showing the development of an artist's work over a period of time
an exhibition or compilation showing the development of an artist's work over a period of time

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

of, relating to, or given to retrospection; based on memory; being a retrospective

Words related to RETROSPECTIVE

retrospectively25 retrospectives21

Words that contain RETROSPECTIVE

retrospectives21 retrospectively25

How to use RETROSPECTIVE in a sentence

Pitt moved that the operation of it be retrospective, and that it commence from the 10th instant.
For retrospective, sentimental, or philanthropic thoughts she grants no leave of absence.
Another strange thing about the retrospective sadness of the vanished past is that it is not the memorable days of life, as a rule, whose passing one regrets.
This treatment supposes life to have already accomplished itself, for the concepts, being so many views taken after the fact, are retrospective and post mortem.
It is curious to take a retrospective view of the mode in which the effects of the Leyden phial were announced to the world, on their first discovery.
RETROSPECTIVE James Mildred was a noble-hearted gentleman.
Whilst occupied in this silent work, they could not help throwing a short retrospective glance on the former Observers of the Moon.
It is only the reflective eye of retrospective study that can discern all the significant elements happily combined in this event by the overmastering laws of human progress.
After this sketch of Scottish affairs, it will be necessary to take a retrospective view of James, and relate the particulars of his expedition to Ireland.
A bill was brought in by Lord Beauchamp, which had a retrospective operation, in order to render such marriages valid and their issue legitimate.

Before, however, relating the particulars of his government, it is necessary to take a retrospective view of events in Upper Canada.
These retrospective meditations are fruitful of self-knowledge.
His eyes were certainly set in an unusually retrospective stare.
SOMETHING OF MEN I HAVE KNOWN With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by ADLAI E.
It is therein declared that no retrospective laws shall be passed.
What a retrospective law is, has been decided, on the construction of this very article, in the Circuit Court for the First Circuit.
My retrospective journey from this point of departure seemed destined to be even more full of observations than that which preceded it.
Before I take leave of Sierra Leone, a few general retrospective glances at the colony may not be without interest.
It was wiser for her, better also for himself, to step back into the normal thus quietly closing the door upon their dual act of retrospective clairvoyance.
Now let us take a retrospective view of this our noble theme, and our interest will be the more strengthened thereon.
As he entered the little room for the first time since his arrival, he stood for a moment with a retrospective smile in his eyes.
Seasickness had triumphed over philosophy! Prospective and retrospective reverie of a decidedly gloomy character was our only occupation.
Pitt moved that the operation of it be retrospective, and that it commence from the tenth instant.
The Renaissance brought back technical freedom and a certain inspiration, unhappily a retrospective and exotic one.
In other cases it has met with lazy retrospective acquiescence on the discovery that powers surreptitiously obtained or granted without formal legislation had not been abused.
He was, indeed, smiling a curious retrospective smile, as if at his own thoughts.
When we thus cast a retrospective glance we find ourselves in the presence of one strange fact, and that is the simultaneousness of discoveries.
The skilful photoplaywright can communicate to us long scenes and complicated developments of the past in the form of such retrospective pictures.

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