in retrospect
English
Prepositional phrase
- When looked back upon as a past event; as can be seen now, but not at the time.
- Synonym: in hindsight
- Near-synonym: retrospectively
- Trying to expand the business into the Middle East was doomed to failure. In retrospect, we shouldn't have bothered.
Translations
as can be seen now but was not seen at the outset
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