| Pronunciation: | | `retrow'aktiv
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- [adj] affecting things past; "retroactive tax increase"; "an ex-post-facto law"; "retro pay"
- [adj] (psychology) descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously
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RETROACTIVE is a 11 letter word that starts with R. |
| | Synonyms: | | ex post facto, retro, retrospective |
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| | Antonyms: | | proactive |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Re`tro*act"ive\, a. [Cf. F. r['e]troactif.]
Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action;
affecting what is past; retrospective. --Beddoes.
{Retroactive law} or {statute} (Law), one which operates to
make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to
affect, acts done prior to the passing of the law.
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