backcast (English, noun)
expansion: backcast (plural backcasts)
Senses:
glosses: A cast or throw back.
glosses: A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
glosses: Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
tags: figuratively
glosses: Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
tags: UK
dialectal
glosses: Retrospect; hindsight.
tags: UK
dialectal
glosses: backwater
tags: UK
dialectal
Forms:
form: backcasts
tags: plural
form: back-cast
tags: alternative