Definition of backward

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Backward (a.) Late or behindhand; as, a backward season..

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Reclinant :: Reclinant (a.) Bending or leaning backward.
Backward :: Backward (a.) Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state..
Lateward :: Lateward (a. & adv.) Somewhat late; backward.
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted..
Postic :: Postic (a.) Backward.
Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) Toward, or in, past time or events; ago..
Backward :: Backward (a.) Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child..
Retrospective :: Retrospective (a.) Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view..
Fettered :: Fettered (a.) Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking..
Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..
Passado :: Passado (v. i.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.
Rock :: Rock (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.
Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
Orthognathous :: Orthognathous (a.) Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic..
Reserve :: Reserve (n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
#NAME? :: -wards (v. i.) Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc..
Radiant :: Radiant (n.) The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or whence they appear to radiate..
Refracted :: Refracted (a.) Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf..
Backhanded :: Backhanded (a.) With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow..
Shuttle :: Shuttle (v. i.) To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle..
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