harks back
Returns to past
Harks back means to recall or evoke something from the past.
A design that harks back to the 1950s deliberately echoes that era's style.
The phrase comes from hunting, where hounds hark back by retracing their path to find a lost scent.
Now it's used for anything that returns to or references earlier times: His rhetoric harks back to the Cold War.
- hearkenListen with attention
- recallMemory retrieval act
- nostalgicLonging for the past
- good old daysIdealized past era
- old timesPrevious era remembered fondly
retrospective · evoke · remember · conjure · reminiscent · historical · recollect · bygone · days gone by · days of yore · retrieve · summon · blast from the past · romanticize · idealize · ancestral · reflect · revisit
harks backanticipates
Expects before it happens
foreshadows · looks ahead · presages · portends · heralds
harks backforward-thinking
Anticipating future needs
innovates · pioneers · modernizes · moves on · advances
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