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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
backward-looking en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not progressive; concerned with the past rather than the present or future.
[I]t is interesting to note that Sengupta includes over 120 similar out-of-date terms from the days of the Raj and before, thus revealing the extent to which the glossary is, in a sense, backward-looking, which is inconsistent with the fact that it is meant to be a supplement of a dictionary of "current" English.
2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 302:
Deriveds
backward-lookingness