Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to retrodiagnose
Participle: retrodiagnosed
Gerund: retrodiagnosing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | retrodiagnose |
| you | retrodiagnose |
| he;she;it | retrodiagnoses |
| we | retrodiagnose |
| you | retrodiagnose |
| they | retrodiagnose |
Perfect
| I | have retrodiagnosed |
| you | have retrodiagnosed |
| he;she;it | has retrodiagnosed |
| we | have retrodiagnosed |
| you | have retrodiagnosed |
| they | have retrodiagnosed |
Past
| I | retrodiagnosed |
| you | retrodiagnosed |
| he;she;it | retrodiagnosed |
| we | retrodiagnosed |
| you | retrodiagnosed |
| they | retrodiagnosed |
Pluperfect
| I | had retrodiagnosed |
| you | had retrodiagnosed |
| he;she;it | had retrodiagnosed |
| we | had retrodiagnosed |
| you | had retrodiagnosed |
| they | had retrodiagnosed |
Future
| I | will retrodiagnose |
| you | will retrodiagnose |
| he;she;it | will retrodiagnose |
| we | will retrodiagnose |
| you | will retrodiagnose |
| they | will retrodiagnose |
Future Perfect
| I | will have retrodiagnosed |
| you | will have retrodiagnosed |
| he;she;it | will have retrodiagnosed |
| we | will have retrodiagnosed |
| you | will have retrodiagnosed |
| they | will have retrodiagnosed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | retrodiagnose |
| you | retrodiagnose |
| he;she;it | retrodiagnose |
| we | retrodiagnose |
| you | retrodiagnose |
| they | retrodiagnose |
Perfect
| I | have retrodiagnosed |
| you | have retrodiagnosed |
| he;she;it | have retrodiagnosed |
| we | have retrodiagnosed |
| you | have retrodiagnosed |
| they | have retrodiagnosed |
Imperfect
| I | retrodiagnosed |
| you | retrodiagnosed |
| he;she;it | retrodiagnosed |
| we | retrodiagnosed |
| you | retrodiagnosed |
| they | retrodiagnosed |
Pluperfect
| I | had retrodiagnosed |
| you | had retrodiagnosed |
| he;she;it | had retrodiagnosed |
| we | had retrodiagnosed |
| you | had retrodiagnosed |
| they | had retrodiagnosed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would retrodiagnose |
| you | would retrodiagnose |
| he;she;it | would retrodiagnose |
| we | would retrodiagnose |
| you | would retrodiagnose |
| they | would retrodiagnose |
Perfect
| I | would have retrodiagnosed |
| you | would have retrodiagnosed |
| he;she;it | would have retrodiagnosed |
| we | would have retrodiagnosed |
| you | would have retrodiagnosed |
| they | would have retrodiagnosed |
Imperative
| you | retrodiagnose |
| we | Let's retrodiagnose |
| you | retrodiagnose |
Verbs conjugated like 'retrodiagnose'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'retrodiagnose'
serodiagnose,
rediagnose,
overdiagnose,
diagnose,
misdiagnose,
retrodate,
retrodimerize,
retrodisplace,
retropose,
retrotranspose,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Italic *wre-
3. Latin re-
4. Latin retrōder.
5. English retro-
6. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
7. Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
8. Ancient Greek διά (diá)
9. Ancient Greek δια- (dia-)
10. Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
11. Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
12. Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider.
13. Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō
14. Ancient Greek γῐγνώσκω (gĭgnṓskō)
15. Ancient Greek δῐαγῐγνώσκω (dĭagĭgnṓskō)
16. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
17. Proto-Hellenic *-tis
18. Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
19. Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
20. Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς (dĭắgnōsĭs)der.
21. Latin diagnōsisder.
22. English diagnosisbf.
23. English diagnose
24. English retrodiagnose
25. From retro- + diagnose.
Sample Sentences
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Rather than retrodiagnosing colonial patients through glimpses and gaps in their stories—was this one a paranoid schizophrenic? did that one suffer major depressive psychosis? was a third borderline?— […] [2007, Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa, The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 85:]
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It's still really important in medicine, of course, but now you can do anthropology with genetics, or retrodiagnose famous historical figures, or even do genetics-based origami and computing. [2012, Sam Kean, The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:]
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At the outset of his article on Cavendish, however, Sacks stated firmly that he was not just jumping on the bandwagon of retrodiagnosing famous geeks from history with a trendy disorder. [2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 1, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York: Avery, →ISBN, page 39:]