Antonym: ahead, forward. Similar words: backwards and forwards, backwash, backwater, awkward, awkwardness, backyard, backboard, back to back. Meaning: ['bækwəd] 
adj. 1. directed or facing toward the back or rear 2. (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature 3. retarded in intellectual development. adv. 1. at or to or toward the back or rear 2. in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal 3. in or to or toward a past time.
adj. 1. directed or facing toward the back or rear 2. (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature 3. retarded in intellectual development. adv. 1. at or to or toward the back or rear 2. in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal 3. in or to or toward a past time. 
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31 She left the city where she had lived all her life without a backward glance.
32 We need to accelerate the pace of change in our backward country.
33 It will take decades to bring this backward country into the modern age.
34 He cut the ball so that it bounded almost backward.
35 The new law is seen by many as a backward step.
36 I tripped and almost did a backward flip down the stairs.
37 It must be a hard life, working as a nurse in a backward country.
38 I was slow to walk and talk and my parents thought I was backward.
39 At a certain age, it's not viable for men to take a backward step into unskilled work.
40 The United Nations appealed to the people of the developed countries for aiding those of the backward countries.
41 He leaned over backward to curry favour with influential officials.
42 She walked out of the door without a backward look.
43 I'm sure Matt will tell you what he thinks of the idea - he's not usually backward in coming forward.
44 Janice did a backward somersault on the mat.
45 The people there are a little bit backward.
46 The boy walked upstairs on the Stairway backward, singing.
47 Then came the great leap backward.
48 He who moves not forward, goes backward. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
49 I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. Abraham Lincoln
50 It's one of the more backward countries.
51 He walks without a backward glance.
52 Just a slow blink and a shuffling step backward.
53 He took a quick step backward.
54 The equity department seemed desperately backward.
55 He did a backward flip.
56 In the land of the Zulus[sentencedict.com], everything seems backward.
57 In any backward society the role of sympathetic intermediary agents and interpreters between high and rural politics is crucial.
58 With barely a backward glance, I was on my way to freedom.sentencedict.com/backward.html
59 That will have been the aim and meaning of his entire backward quest.
60 Xeurons are normally one-way streets, but occasionally they can be forced into working backward.
More similar words: backwards and forwards, backwash, backwater, awkward, awkwardness, backyard, backboard, back to back, backpack, back, aback, back off, go back, back of, back on, back out, back up, backup, ward, payback, hold back, cut back, backlog, call back, set back, back away, back down, backbone, setback, pay back.