retroactive en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
First attested in 1610. From French rétroactif, equivalent to retro- + active.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions
Such assumptions can motivate expressions of cisgenderism such as retroactive misgendering (in which a person's past is described using language that disregards or contrasts with their current designation of their gender) […]
2016, Abbie E. Goldberg, The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, page 232:Can such a child be ennobled by the passage of time, his struggles granted retroactive gravitas and his childish confusions rearticulated with adult clarity?
2007 April 15, Liesl Schillinger, “The Night Train to Bucharest”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022:Rather, he hoped there was some legal trickeration he could deploy to get a retroactive water right filed and end-run the opposition.
2005, Jeff Hull, Pale Morning Done: A Novel, page 214:Lenin's retroactive view of history was of course nothing in comparison to the systematic falsification of Stalin's day, when it had to be shown at all costs that the current assessment of individuals and political movements was equally valid for all past years.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 523:
Deriveds
retroactive rape · retroactively · retroactivity · retroactiveness · nonretroactive · retcon
Relateds
ex post facto · retrospective · retroaction
Synonyms
Translations (25)
pt retroativo (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · cs zpětný (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · el αναδρομικός (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · da retroaktiv (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · hy հետադարձ (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · ka უკუქმედებითი (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · nl terugwerkend (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · ru ретроакти́вный (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · io retroagiva (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · fr rétroactif (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · fi takautuva (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · sv retroaktiv (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · be рэтраакты́ўны (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · id retroaktif (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · da tilbagevirkende (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · cs retroaktivní (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · ca retroactiu (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · pl retroaktywny (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · it retroattivo (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · de rückwirkend (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · ka რეტროაქტიული (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · fi retroaktiivinen (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · ga aisghníomhach (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · es retroactivo (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions) · fi taannehtiva (extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions)