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.
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91 Divorce was so common, marital happiness so important, that it was boorish and backward to speak against it.
92 Walk backward, with your eyes on the royal family before you bow to them.
93 The cultures of some 40 indigenous peoples are considered backward and irrelevant to the values of the modern, free-market state.
94 The business is either going forward or going backward because everyone else is going forward.
95 His chute malfunctioned, opening in a direction that carried him straight backward.
96 I began to count backward, silently, in an attempt to calm my stomach.
97 It was the first, all the time, in the cubicle, the lavatory, that Parker took a backward step.
98 However, a second marginal comment in his New Testament both latches on to Crime and Punishment and provokes a backward thought.
99 If he were a wind-up toy, he would run in an engaging curve backward.
100 He wore a blue baseball cap backward and a gold hoop in his left ear.
101 She stumbled backward, out of range, but he stepped toward her and raised his stick again.
102 The logic of transnational production either forbids, permits, or encourages backward linkages.
103 That one has long since vanished, as a result of the Falls' implacable backward erosion.
104 The patient, being well-rehearsed beforehand, starts counting backward from this number.
105 That backward path is the foundation of Western, linear logic.
106 He fell backward, was dragged along the pavement tearing at his hands like shark teeth.
107 Gilly dragged a heavy stuffed chair backward to the shelf and climbed up on the very top of its back.
108 Then he, too, turned and without a backward glance went out into the passage, slamming the door.
109 If a woman with bright red lipstick appeared, a person would fall over backward.
110 Hudson was run out by Simmons from backward point, then Kirsten, the last experienced batsman, went to Cummins.
111 One boy is slouched down in his chair, wearing a baseball cap, the bill turned backward.
112 But it failed to discuss how consent should be interpreted where children, young persons and the mentally backward are concerned.
113 The chicks all scurry to shelter; but if the same models are drawn backward, they do not.
114 It is made up, for the most part, of the most backward reactionaries.
115 Adam stumbled backward, tripped over the steel fireplace screen, then lost his balance and crashed to the floor.
116 New policies on developing the backward western provinces and improving health, education and social welfare are stressed.
117 This is a backward and cruel society, in which people are executed for homosexuality and adultery.
118 Grimma took another step forward and caught it a backward thump across the muzzle.
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119 There was not even time for sentimental looks backward at the receding coast of the homeland.
120 Having to move an offer deadline date backward due to a lack of attractive offers will place a vendor in a weak position.
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.