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Retroactive

🔄 Synonyms of "Retroactive"

2 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
retrospectivenoun	Of, relating to, or contemplating the past.
ex post facto	(law) Formulated or enacted after some event, and then retroactively applied to it.

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Word	Definition
ex post facto	(law) Formulated or enacted after some event, and then retroactively applied to it.
retrospective	Of, relating to, or contemplating the past.
feedbacknoun	Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
ex-post	Alternative spelling of ex post. [(of financial returns etc) actual]
rollbacknoun	A return to a prior state by undoing some operation, especially of policy or price changes.
retrogressive	Directed towards the rear or the past; retrograde.
retronoun	Of, or relating to, the past, past times, or the way things were.
back	At or near the rear.
reactionary	(politics) Extremely conservative; opposing revolution (such as the French Revolution); favoring a return to a "golden age" of the past.
posteriori	—
retrochronal	Operating backward in time, so that effects precede their causes.
backhanded	Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
retrospectical	(uncommon) Retrospective.
retrospectory	retrospective
backcastnoun	A cast or throw back.
expostfacto	Alternative form of ex post facto. [Retroactive.]
persistive	(grammar) Indicating a situation that was the case at one time (usually past) and continues to a later time (usually time of speaking).
protractive	Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing or delaying.
antecedentnoun	Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
provectverb	(obsolete) mature; advanced (in age)

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