backcast
backcast verb: to identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.
Verb
backcast (third-person singular simple present backcasts, present participle backcasting, simple past and past participle backcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) backcasted)
Noun
backcast (plural backcasts)
- A cast or throw back.
- A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
- Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
- Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
- Retrospect; hindsight.
- backwater
Adjective
backcast (comparative more backcast, superlative most backcast)
Adverb
backcast (comparative more backcast, superlative most backcast)
Synonyms of backcast
Forms of backcast
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | backcasts |
| present participle | backcasting |
| past participle | backcast |
| past | backcast |
| past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes | backcasted |
| past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes | backcasted |
| alternative form | back-cast |
| Noun | |
| plural | backcasts |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more backcast |
| superlative | most backcast |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | more backcast |
| superlative | most backcast |
Origin of backcast
Blend of back + forecast.
Questions about backcast
- What does backcast mean?
- Backcast means to identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.
- What part of speech is backcast?
- Backcast can be a verb, a noun, an adjective or an adverb.
- What is the past tense of backcast?
- The past tense of backcast is backcast.
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