- 1thinking about or connected with something that happened in the past She felt a pang of retrospective sympathy for Mel.
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- 2= retroactive
adverb She wrote retrospectively about her childhood. The new rule will be applied retrospectively.See retrospective in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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