backcast

verb

1. To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.
2. (UK, dialectal)To change retrospectively; reverse.

noun

1. A cast or throw back.
2. A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
3. (figuratively)Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
4. (UK, dialectal)Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
5. (UK, dialectal)Retrospect; hindsight.
6. (UK, dialectal)backwater

adj

1. (UK, dialectal)Retrospective.

adv

1. (UK, dialectal)Long ago; in the past.