Home › Words › B › backshadowbackshadowbackshadow means to demonstrate how an event that has already occurred will affect the future.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, backshadow ranks #11,320 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom back- + shadow.verbTo demonstrate how an event that has already occurred will affect the future.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.backshadowing 83% match — A literary device in which an author shows how an event that already occurred affects the future. vs backshadow →foreshowing 61% match — The act or an instance of showing something, usually an event, ahead of time; a prognostication vs backshadow →foreshadow 58% match — To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage. vs backshadow →retrognosis 58% match — A description of a past event that is written as though it were a prediction. vs backshadow →foreshow 58% match — To show in advance; to foretell, predict. vs backshadow →outshadow 56% match — overshadow (to make to seem insignificant) vs backshadow →aforeshown 56% match — Shown or demonstrated previously. vs backshadow →afterwardsness 54% match — The concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning. vs backshadow →