Meaning of backward-looking | Babel Free

Definitions

Not progressive; concerned with the past rather than the present or future.

not-comparable

Examples

“[I]t is interesting to note that Sengupta includes over 120 similar out-of-date terms from the days of the Raj and before, thus revealing the extent to which the glossary is, in a sense, backward-looking, which is inconsistent with the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.”

CEFR level