Backward

Back´ward

adv.	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.
	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.
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.
	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. And flies unconscious o'er each backward year. - Byron.
n.	1.	The state behind or past. In the dark backward and abysm of time. - Shak.
v. t.	1.	To keep back; to hinder.

Adj.	1.	backward - directed or facing toward the back or rear; "a backward view" Antonyms: forward - at or near or directed toward the front; "the forward section of the aircraft"; "a forward plunge down the stairs"; "forward motion"
	2.	backward - (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature; "a backward lover" Antonyms: forward - used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty; "a forward child badly in need of discipline"
	3.	backward - retarded in intellectual development Synonyms: feebleminded
Adv.	1.	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" Synonyms: backwards, rearward, rearwards, back Antonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards - at or to or toward the front; "he faced forward"; "step forward"; "she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"; (`forrad' and `forrard' are dialectal variations)
	2.	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" Synonyms: backwards
	3.	backward - in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward" Synonyms: back Antonyms: ahead, forward - toward the future; forward in time; "I like to look ahead in imagination to what the future may bring"; "I look forward to seeing you"

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