retro

made to look like a style from earlier decades — for example, clothing, music, or furniture that copies designs people liked twenty to forty years ago, usually in a fun or fashionable way.

• vintage

  vintage usually describes something genuinely old and of high quality, not a modern copy of an old style

• old-fashioned

  broader in meaning; can describe anything that belongs to an earlier time, not necessarily stylish or cool

• nostalgic

  focuses on the emotional feeling of missing the past, rather than on the visual style itself

• modern

  relating to current or present-day styles rather than past ones

• contemporary

  belonging to or occurring in the present, not imitating past styles

added to the beginning of a word to mean 'backwards,' 'behind,' or 'in the opposite direction' — for example, in words like retrograde (moving backward) or retroactive (applying to past events).

• pro-

  the prefix 'pro-' means forward or in favour of, e.g., 'proactive' (acting ahead) vs 'retroactive' (applying to the past)

• ante-

  the prefix 'ante-' means before in time, e.g., 'antedate' (to exist before) is the directional opposite of 'retrodate'