"backward-looking" meaning in English

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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "backward-looking (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Past",
          "orig": "en:Past",
          "parents": [
            "Time",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "backward-lookingness"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 302:",
          "text": "[I]t is interesting to note that Sengupta includes over 120 similar out-of-date terms from the days of the Raj and before, thus revealing the extent to which the glossary is, in a sense, backward-looking, which is inconsistent with the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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not progressive; concerned with the past rather than the present or future."
      ],
      "id": "en-backward-looking-en-adj-e7~R4Sov",
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        [
          "progressive",
          "progressive"
        ],
        [
          "past",
          "past"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "backward-looking"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "backward-lookingness"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "backward-looking (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "English lemmas",
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        "en:Past"
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          "ref": "2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 302:",
          "text": "[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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not progressive; concerned with the past rather than the present or future."
      ],
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        [
          "progressive",
          "progressive"
        ],
        [
          "past",
          "past"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "backward-looking"
}