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"it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'" "the child put her jersey on backward"adverbin a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
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adjectiveretarded in intellectual development
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"lovers of the past looking fondly backward"adverbin or to or toward a past time
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"tripped when he stepped backward"adverbat or to or toward the back or rearOpposite:
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"a backward view"adjectivedirected or facing toward the back or rear
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"an economically backward country"adjectivehaving made less than normal progress
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"a backward lover"adjective(used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring natureOpposite:
Definition that contains backward
- back cause to travel backward
- back travel backward
- night a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
- dog a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward
- king a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- deep having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination
- kick the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
- race the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- wash the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- flip an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return