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Backward

adjective

1.

Directed or facing toward the back or rear. Antonym: forward.

2.

(used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature. Antonym: forward.

3.

Retarded in intellectual development. Synonyms: feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted.

4.

Having made less than normal progress.

adverb

1.

At or to or toward the back or rear. Synonyms: back, backwards, rearward, rearwards. "Tripped when he stepped backward" , "She looked rearward out the window of the car" Antonym: forward.

2.

In a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal. Synonym: backwards. "The child put her jersey on backward"

3.

In or to or toward a past time. Synonym: back. "Never look back" , "Lovers of the past looking fondly backward" Antonyms: ahead, forward.

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"Backward" Quotes from Famous Books

... place; but there was another change. Little by little, her eyes recovered their natural living expression—then slowly closed. She tottered backward from the table, and lifted her hands wildly, as if to grasp at something which might support her. Mr. Rayburn hurried to her before she fell—lifted her in his arms—and carried ...

— Little Novels • Wilkie Collins

... to lay about her, with her whip, in a way that proved extremely unpleasant. Wolf-in-the-Temple, against whom her assault was especially directed, received some bad cuts across his face, and Ironbeard was driven backward into the ford, where he fell, full length, and rose dripping wet and mortified. Thore the Hound got a thump in his head from Gunbjor's stalwart elbows, and Skull-Splitter, who had more courage than discretion, was pitched into the water with no more ceremony than if he had ...

— Boyhood in Norway • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

... are going to catch it," whispered Grace, as she began stepping backward toward her place, which she did not quite reach. She sat down on Hazel instead, raising a titter among the girls near by who had witnessed the mishap. But the interruption was brief. The girls were too much interested in what was ...

— The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea - Or The Loss of The Lonesome Bar • Janet Aldridge

... But Marcy, beside being a sturdy fellow, knew how to stand up for his rights. He braced his foot firmly against the curbstone and met the shock of the collision so vigorously that those who would have sent him headlong into the street were sent backward themselves, and came very near going head first down the stairs that led ...

— Marcy The Blockade Runner • Harry Castlemon

... men. The chain of links which once bound stage to stage of human history is somewhere for ever broken; and as we retrace, in the memory of the race or in that of individual, the Ariadne-clue which we here call 'the unity of History' it vanishes somewhere beyond our vision into the dark backward and abysm of time. True, of late Archaeology and Anthropology have cast their search-lights into the darkness, piercing a little deeper than of old into the mists that surround the origins of our civilization; but before that dimly illuminated region of pre-history there ...

— The Unity of Civilization • Various

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