Word Meanings - RETROSPECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.

Related words: (words related to RETROSPECTION)

• LOOKDOWN
  See
• LOOK
  1. To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below. 2. To
• LOOKOUT
  1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event. 2. The place from which such observation is made. 3. A person engaged in watching. 4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
• LOOKING-GLASS
  A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.
• LOOKER
  One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax.
• FACULTY
  The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college. Dean of faculty. See under Dean. -- Faculty of advocates. See
• LOOKING
  Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• FLOOKAN; FLUKAN
  See FLUCAN
• FLOOKY
  Fluky.
• DOWNLOOKED
  Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. Dryden.
• UNDERFACULTY
  An inferior or subordinate faculty.
• GOOD-LOOKING
  Handsome.
• ON-LOOKING
  Looking on or forward.
• OVERLOOK
  1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did
• LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS
  See VENUS
• PRELOOK
  To look forward. Surrey.
• UNLOOKED-FOR
  Not looked for; unexpected; as, an unlooked-for event.
• TALOOK; TALUK
  A large estate; esp., one constituting a revenue district or dependency the native proprietor of which is responsible for the collection and payment of the public revenue due from it.
• TALOOKDAR; TALUKDAR
  A proprietor of a talook.
• UNLOOKED
  Not observed or foreseen; unexpected; -- generally with for. "Unlooked success." Denham. She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all. Pope.
• UPLOOK
  To look or gaze up.