backcast English

Meaning backcast meaning

What does backcast mean?

backcast verb

— To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.

— (UK, _, dialectal) To change retrospectively; reverse.

backcast noun

— A cast or throw back.

— A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.

— (figuratively) Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.

— (UK, _, dialectal) Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.

— (UK, _, dialectal) Retrospect; hindsight.

— (UK, _, dialectal) backwater

backcast adjective

— (UK, _, dialectal) Retrospective.

backcast adverb

— (UK, _, dialectal, of time) Long ago; in the past.