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Meaning of backward
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
backward
adv 1: at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back";
"tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward
out the window of the car" [syn: {back}, {backward},
{backwards}, {rearward}, {rearwards}] [ant: {forrad},
{forrard}, {forward}, {forwards}, {frontward},
{frontwards}]
2: in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal;
"it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like
`seize' and `siege'"; "the child put her jersey on backward"
[syn: {backward}, {backwards}]
3: in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an
hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly
backward" [syn: {back}, {backward}] [ant: {ahead}, {forward}]
adj 1: directed or facing toward the back or rear; "a backward
view" [ant: {forward}]
2: (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring
nature; "a backward lover" [ant: {forward}]
3: retarded in intellectual development [syn: {backward}, {half-
witted}, {slow-witted}, {feebleminded}]
4: having made less than normal progress; "an economically
backward country"
WordNet ® Princeton University. http://wordnet.princeton.edu
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