| Main Entry: | retrospective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | backward-looking |
Synonyms: |
contemplative, pensive, recollective, reflective |
| Main Entry: | retrospective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerned with past |
Synonyms: |
backward, remembering, retroactive, reviewing |
| Main Entry: | thoughtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemplative, introspective |
Synonyms: |
absorbed, analytical, attentive, brainy, calculating, cerebral, cogitative, deep, deliberative, discerning, earnest, engrossed, farsighted, grave, intellectual, intent, keen, levelheaded, logical, lost in thought, meditative, melancholy, museful, musing, pensive, philosophic, pondering, preoccupied, rapt, rational, reasonable, reasoning, reflecting, reflective, retrospective, ruminative, serious, sober, studious, subjective, thinking, wise, wistful |
Antonyms: |
idiotic, negligent, obtuse, remiss, stupid, thoughtless |
| Main Entry: | ex post facto |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | after the fact |
Synonyms: |
attendant, done afterward, post factum, posterior, postmortem, retroactive, retrospective, sequent, subsequent, succeeding |
| Main Entry: | ruminative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
Synonyms: |
absorbed, analytical, attentive, brainy, calculating, cerebral, cogitative, contemplative, deep, deliberative, discerning, earnest, engrossed, excogitative, farsighted, grave, in a brown study, intellectual, intent, keen, levelheaded, logical, lost in thought, meditative, melancholy, museful, musing, pensive, philosophic, pondering, preoccupied, rapt, rational, reasonable, reasoning, reflecting, reflective, retrospective, serious, sober, speculative, studious, subjective, thinking, wise*, wistful |