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backward   (TTS Sound)

The adj backward has 4 senses

• backward -- (directed or facing toward the back or rear; "a backward view")


• backward -- ((used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature; "a backward lover")


• backward, half-witted, slow-witted, feebleminded -- (retarded in intellectual development)


• backward -- (having made less than normal progress; "an economically backward country")

The adv backward has 3 senses

• back, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards -- (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")


• backward, backwards -- (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")


• back, 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")