Meaning

6 senses
  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

Origin

Blend of back + forecast.

Blend of back + forecast.

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Forms

plural: backcasts

See also

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