backward

Words with a similar base: backward, backwards

'backward'

[backward.a.01] as in: directed or facing toward the back or rear

backward, backward, backward, backward, back, backward, back

retrospective, regressive, cacuminal, retracted, reflexive, retral, converse, receding, rearward, regardant, backswept, inverse, retroflex, returning

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forward, forward, forward, forward, forward, forward, advancing, forward, forth, ahead, ahead, fore

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advance, advancing, aft, ahead, back, backward, battlefront, bet_on, binding, boost, bourgeois, bow, button-down, cautious, change_by_reversal, conservative, fore, forth, forward, front, front_man, gain, improvement, inverse, invert, movement, obverse, overrule, overture, presence, progress, promote, rear, rearward, regressive, retrospective, reverse, reversion, revoke, second, spinal_column, swerve, turn_back, veer

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'backward'

[backward.a.02] as in: (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature

Examples:
a backward lover

backward, backward, backward, backward, back, backward, back

timid, bashful

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forward, forward, forward, forward, forward, forward, advancing, forward, forth, ahead, ahead, fore

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advance, advancing, aft, ahead, back, backward, battlefront, bet_on, binding, boost, bow, change_by_reversal, diffident, faint, fore, forth, forward, front, front_man, gain, improvement, inverse, invert, movement, obverse, overrule, overture, presence, progress, promote, rear, rearward, reverse, reversion, revoke, second, spinal_column, swerve, timid, turn_back, veer

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'backward'

[backward.s.01] as in: retarded in intellectual development

backward, backward, backward, backward, back, backward, back

retarded, retardation, denseness, feeblemindedness

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archaism

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aft, back, backward, bet_on, binding, change_by_reversal, check, decelerate, inverse, invert, mentally_retarded, overrule, rear, rearward, retard, retarded, reverse, reversion, revoke, second, spinal_column, turn_back

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'backward'

[backward.s.02] as in: having made less than normal progress

Examples:
an economically backward country

backward, backward, backward, backward, back, backward, back

undynamic

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aft, back, backward, bet_on, binding, change_by_reversal, inverse, invert, overrule, rear, rearward, reverse, reversion, revoke, second, spinal_column, stative, turn_back, undynamic

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'backward'

[back.r.02] as in: at or to or toward the back or rear

Examples:
he moved back
tripped when he stepped backward
she looked rearward out the window of the car

back, rear, back, back, spinal_column, binding, back, back, back, back, back, second, back, back, back, bet_on, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, backward, backward, backward, backward, backward, rearward, rear, rearward

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forward, forward, forward, forward, forward, forward, advancing, forward, forth, ahead, ahead, fore

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back

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advance, advancing, aft, ahead, back, backward, battlefront, bet_on, binding, boost, bow, buttocks, change_by_reversal, demote, fall_back, fore, forth, forward, front, front_man, gain, hideaway, improvement, inverse, invert, lag, movement, obverse, overrule, overture, presence, progress, promote, raise, rear, rearward, recede, regress, regression, relapse, retirement, retreat, retrograde, reverse, reversion, revert, revoke, rise, second, spinal_column, swerve, turn_back, veer, withdraw

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'backward'

[backward.r.02] as in: in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal

Examples:
it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'
the child put her jersey on backward

backward, backward, backward, backward, back, backward, back

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aft, back, backward, bet_on, binding, change_by_reversal, inverse, invert, overrule, rear, rearward, reverse, reversion, revoke, second, spinal_column, turn_back

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'backward'

[back.r.04] as in: in or to or toward a past time

Examples:
set the clocks back an hour
never look back
lovers of the past looking fondly backward

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ahead, ahead, ahead, ahead, ahead, ahead, ahead, ahead, forward, forward, forward, forward, forward, forward, advancing, forward, forth, fore

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back

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Origins

					backward (English)
└── abakward (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
    ├── -ward (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
    └── back (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

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