retroactive

retroactive is a 11-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.
2. adjective. affecting things past

   "retroactive tax increase"

   "an ex-post-facto law"

   Synonyms: retro

3. adjective. descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously

Synonyms

retro

Common word forms

retroactively

Words from these letters

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