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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121 We passed with never a backward look and arrived in Al Ain in well under three hours.
122 He does not think much of the Midwest, which he calls a backward, dumb but snobbish place.
123 He walked away down the corridor, without so much as a backward look, and tears stung her eyes.
124 If our political economy remains backward, our intellectual economy has leaped ahead.
125 He strained backward and he was so frightened that they had a difficult time holding him.
126 For each step forward in market technology they took a step backward in human evolution.
127 As people shuffled backward to make way for the procession, others were pushed against the platform.
128 She fell backward and off the chair and thrashed around holding her throat.
129 Moving the speakers as little as an inch or two forward or backward can make a huge difference.
130 "I'll never forgive you for this," Marge said, and she marched off without a backward glance.
131 Dan appeared in jeans, wearing his cap backward as usual.
132 There is no need to go back to square one; just a few steps backward is all that is needed.
133 He allowed himself one backward glance towards the estate, then turned his heels to the task of flight.
134 He seemed to make a point of taking two steps backward for every one step forward.
135 But in their economic desperation, many business and middle-class people have slipped backward, politically.
136 I took my cue to go, and left without a backward glance or wave.
137 But instances like the Primitives get rarer and already one feels ashamed for indulging such backward passions.
138 Archibol was shoved backward from the thrust of her bosom.
139 Carter was merely stunned by the reaction from the East; he was blown over backward by the reaction from the West.
140 Other nations stumbled, slid backward, moved forward again with difficulty.
141 As in billiards(sentencedict.com), a direct collision results in backward scattering and an off-centre collision results in forward scattering.
142 Backward compatible changes cause the number to increment.
143 Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions?
144 She rose and took a tentative step backward.
145 Executes a hyperlink jump backward within the history list.
146 Some read the sequence backward, thus requiring bidirectional iterators.
147 Employ backward chaining to develop the class.
148 The forward - and - backward path - following control is studied for TFMRs with standard and nonstandard connections.
148 Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
149 With this method, texture feature vector cloud is generated backward after fuzzily processing descriptor of textures.
150 The system is a rule-based production system. Inference engine is the core part of expert system. We use forward chaining and backward chaining at the same time.
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.