Retroactive vs. Retrospective

Difference Between Retroactive and Retrospective
Retroactiveadjective
Influencing or applying to a period prior to enactment
a retroactive pay increase.Retrospectiveadjective
Looking back on, contemplating, or directed to the past.
Retroactiveadjective
Extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions
Retrospectiveadjective
Looking or directed backward.
Retroactiveadjective
descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously
Retrospectiveadjective
Applying to or influencing the past; retroactive.
Retroactiveadjective
affecting things past;
retroactive tax increasean ex-post-facto lawretro payRetrospectiveadjective
Of, relating to, or being a retrospective
a retrospective art exhibition.Retrospectivenoun
An exhibition or performance of works produced by an artist over a considerable period.
Retrospectiveadjective
Of, relating to, or contemplating the past.
Retrospectiveadjective
Looking backwards.
Retrospectiveadjective
Affecting or influencing past things; retroactive.
Retrospectivenoun
An exhibition of works from an extended period of an artist's activity.
Retrospectivenoun
an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
Retrospectiveadjective
concerned with or related to the past;
retrospective self-justification