If you describe someone or something as backward-looking, you disapprove of their attitudes, ideas, or actions because they are based on old-fashioned opinions or methods.
[disapproval]
...a stagnant, backward-looking culture.
History may judge the enterprise to have been rather backward-looking.
backward-looking in British English
or backward looking (ˈbækwədˌlʊkɪŋ)
adjective
concerned with the past rather the present and future
This backward-looking attitude has hampered genuine analysis of the current issues.
a stagnant, backward-looking culture
Law firms can often be very backward-looking.
History may judge the enterprise to have been rather backward-looking.
Examples of 'backward-looking' in a sentence
backward-looking
And Rupert as a marquess might prove to be a completely different kind of person: serious and backward-looking.