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backward
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Adjective
  • having made less than normal progress
    • an economically backward country
  • retarded in intellectual development
  • (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
    • a backward lover
  • directed or facing toward the back or rear
    • a backward view
Adverb
  • in or to or toward a past time
    • set the clocks back an hour
    • never look back
    • lovers of the past looking fondly backward
  • 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
  • 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
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