Definition of backward

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

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Reserved :: Reserved (a.) Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank..
Backhanded :: Backhanded (a.) With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow..
Aback :: Aback (adv.) Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind.
Backwardly :: Backwardly (adv.) Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.
Reredemain :: Reredemain (n.) A backward stroke.
Reverse :: Reverse (a.) Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method..
Fluctuate :: Fluctuate (v. i.) To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air..
Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin..
Arear :: Arear (adv.) Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand.
Fettered :: Fettered (a.) Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking..
Forwards :: Forwards (adv.) Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.
Barb :: Barb (n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else..
Caudad :: Caudad (adv.) Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.
Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses..
Tennis :: Tennis (v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis..
Averse :: Averse (a.) Turned away or backward.
Backsight :: Backsight (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3..
Ana- :: Ana- () A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew..
Retroversion :: Retroversion (n.) A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus..
Thar :: Thar (n.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo..
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