RETRO
What does "RETRO" mean?
Imitating or evoking a style, fashion, or design from the recent past.
Meanings
- Deliberately recalling the look or feel of an earlier era. The diner had a retro look, all chrome and red vinyl booths.
- A retro style, item, or trend. Her whole wardrobe is retro from the seventies. informal
- A retrospective meeting reviewing past work, especially in software teams. We logged the bugs to raise at Friday's retro. technical
Word origin
From Latin 'retro', meaning 'backward' or 'behind'; popularized as a standalone English word in the 20th century, partly via French 'rétro'.
Remember it
RETRO points back: 'retro-' always means backward, like a retrograde planet reversing course.
A little poem
We chase the future, then turn round to find
the past dressed new, and bought a second time.
couplet
Wordplay
- I tried to make my code retro, but the team just called it a bug from 1998.
What it teaches
Nostalgia sells the past back to us, polished of everything that made it hard to live in.
Quick facts
What does RETRO mean?
Imitating or evoking a style, fashion, or design from the recent past.
Is RETRO a valid word?
Yes — RETRO is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is RETRO?
RETRO has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does RETRO come from?
From Latin 'retro', meaning 'backward' or 'behind'; popularized as a standalone English word in the 20th century, partly via French 'rétro'.
What can RETRO teach us?
Nostalgia sells the past back to us, polished of everything that made it hard to live in.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.