Moral vs Backcast - What's the difference?
moral | backcast |
Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
* Sir M. Hale
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Capable of right and wrong action.
Probable but not proved.
Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
(of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.
* Macaulay
Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
(obsolete) A morality play.
To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.
To change retrospectively; reverse.
A cast or throw back.
A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
(figuratively) Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
Retrospect; hindsight.
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As nouns the difference between moral and backcast
is that moral is moral while backcast is a cast or throw back.As a verb backcast is
to identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.As an adjective backcast is
retrospective.As an adverb backcast is
long ago; in the past.moral
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.
- the wiser and more moral part of mankind
Synonyms
* (conforming to a standard of right behaviour) ethical, incorruptible, noble, righteous, virtuous * (probable but not proved) virtualAntonyms
* immoral, amoral, non-moral, unmoralDerived terms
* moral compass * moral high ground * moral minimumNoun
(en noun)- The moral of the (The Boy Who Cried Wolf) is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.
- We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.