it seems like it is. what is the full word?
2007-05-29 12:20:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Retroactive
2007-05-29 12:22:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Retro is short for retrograde, retroactive or retrospective - all mean going backwards, or from the past. Some thing that is "retro" was popular a while ago, and is making a come back.
2007-05-29 12:24:16 · answer #2 · answered by Barb Outhere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
“Retro” has long been used as a prefix, intended to suggest that which is past or derivative. In the postwar period, it increased in usage with the advent of retrorockets used by the US space program in the 1950s and 1960s. It gained cultural currency with French reevaluations of Charles de Gaulle and that country’s role in World War II. The French mode retro of the 1970s reappraised in film and novels the conduct of French civilians during the Nazi occupation. The term “retro” was soon applied to nostalgic French fashions that recalled the same period.
Shortly it was coined into English by the fashion and culture press, where it suggests a rather cynical revival of older but relatively recent fashions. (Elizabeth E. Guffey, Retro: The Culture of Revival, pp. 9-22). In Simulacra and Simulation, French theorist Jean Baudrillard describes retro as a demythologization of the past, distancing the present from the big ideas that drove the “modern” age (Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, p. 43).
2007-05-29 12:23:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Retros or retroactive is the actual word, see link.
2007-05-29 12:23:34 · answer #4 · answered by Bob Thompson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
retro is short for retrospective which means anything that older than present day.technically something from last year could be seen as retro but the term tends to be used for anything from around 20 or more years ago
2007-05-29 12:24:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fo Sho
2016-05-21 02:53:14 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the shortened version of French "rétrograde," or in English, retrograde. :P
2007-05-29 12:23:56 · answer #7 · answered by моя звезда 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the full word in French is "rétrograde" (adj.) but we mainly use "rétro" too. Dunno if this helps...
"Un rétro" in French also designates a (car) mirror. This is the short word for "rétroviseur". I don't think this is useful though...
2007-05-29 12:24:37 · answer #8 · answered by A-n-t-h-o-n-y 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i think its a prefix and a full word but im not sure
2007-05-29 12:22:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Retrograde... Retrospect... Retroactive... I don't know...
2007-05-29 12:23:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋