backward : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: backward	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for backward
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
backward adv 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" Synonym(s): back, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards Antonym(s): forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards 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" Synonym(s): backward, backwards in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward" Synonym(s): back, backward Antonym(s): ahead, forward adj directed or facing toward the back or rear; "a backward view" Antonym(s): forward (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature; "a backward lover" Antonym(s): forward retarded in intellectual development Synonym(s): backward, half- witted, slow-witted, feebleminded having made less than normal progress; "an economically backward country"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Backward \Back"ward\, n. The state behind or past. [Obs.] In the dark backward and abysm of time. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Backward \Back"ward\, v. i. To keep back; to hinder. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Backward \Back"ward\, Backwards \Back"wards\, adv. [Back, adv. + -ward.] 1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. --Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago. Some reigns backward. --Locke. 5. By way of reflection; reflexively. --Sir J. Davies. 6. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. The work went backward. --Dryden. 7. In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards. We might have . . . beat them backward home. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Backward \Back"ward\, a. 1. Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances. 2. Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves. --Pope. 3. Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child. [bd]The backward learner.[b8] --South. 4. Late or behindhand; as, a backward season. 5. Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state. 6. Already past or gone; bygone. [R.] And flies unconscious o'er each backward year. --Byron.