Backward means "toward the rear" or "behind." It’s the opposite of forward. If you stop peddling your bike on a hill, you’ll start rolling backward. If you count backward from 10 to 1, you probably just hypnotized someone.
Directed to the back or rear;
Adjective
directed or facing toward the back or rear; "a backward view"
Adjective
(used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature; "a backward lover"
Adjective S.
retarded in intellectual development
Adverb
in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward"
Adverb
at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car"
Adverb
in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal; "it''s easy to get the `i'' and the `e'' backward in words like `seize'' and `siege''"; "the child put her jersey on backward"
adv.
Alt. of Backwards
a.
Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.
a.
Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.
a.
Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension;
dull; inapt; as, a backward child.
a.
Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.
a.
Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the
country or region is in a backward state.
a.
Already past or gone; bygone.
n.
The state behind or past.
v. i.
To keep back; to hinder.
Backward
For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves.3.
And flies unconscious o'er each backward year.
Backward
In the dark backward and abysm of time.
Backward
Directed to the back or rear;
The state behind or past.
To keep back; to hinder.
Usage Examples
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward if you go forward, you have to jump together.
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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Other Usage ExamplesNevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
My goal when I started out was to get to the point where I could tour a lot and make a living, which means getting paid enough to hire my own band, travel and end up with a bit of money, but I'm still nowhere near that point. Because I didn't have a band and fan base when I started, I did everything backward.
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