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Backward   /bˈækwərd/   Listen
Backward

adjective
1.
Directed or facing toward the back or rear.  Antonym: forward.
2.
(used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature.  Antonym: forward.
3.
Retarded in intellectual development.  Synonyms: feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted.
4.
Having made less than normal progress.
adverb
1.
At or to or toward the back or rear.  Synonyms: back, backwards, rearward, rearwards.  "Tripped when he stepped backward" , "She looked rearward out the window of the car"  Antonym: forward.
2.
In a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal.  Synonym: backwards.  "The child put her jersey on backward"
3.
In or to or toward a past time.  Synonym: back.  "Never look back" , "Lovers of the past looking fondly backward"  Antonyms: ahead, forward.



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"Backward" Quotes from Famous Books



... down and sideways for some distance along the bluff, and were almost ready to give up, when a branch that Firetop was holding broke and he fell backward down the slope. He rolled over two or three times, and when he stopped rolling and sat up he was looking directly into the mouth of a great dark cave. A lot of stones and dirt came tumbling down with him, and, with that and some noise ...
— The Cave Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... twenty square miles for fifty hours, trying to find an opening to the south, south-east, or south-west, but all the leads ran north, north-east, or north-west. It was as though the spirits of the Antarctic were pointing us to the backward track—the track we were determined not to follow. Our desire was to make easting as well as southing so as to reach the land, if possible, east of Ross's farthest South and well east of Coats' Land. This was more ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton
... not confine itself to dealing with contagious disease. Its aid has been invoked to help the child who is backward in his school studies. With the recent extensions in the length of the school term and the increase in the number of years of schooling demanded of the child, has come a great advance in the standards of the work required. When the standards were low, ...
— Health Work in the Public Schools • Leonard P. Ayres and May Ayres
... resistance, but when he tried to take her into her room, she bent her body backward, and thus pressed about his wrist. She ...
— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann
... Lucy was dead set on the procession idea. So in the end they done it so, an' Gran'ma Mullins's sobs fairly shook the house as they come through the dinin'-room door. Lucy was first with her father an' they both had their heads turned backward lookin' at ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various


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