backward
adverb
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in or to or toward a past timeback
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at or to or toward the back or rearback
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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'”backwards
adjective
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directed or facing toward the back or rear“a backward view”
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(used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature“a backward lover”
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having made less than normal progress“an economically backward country”
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retarded in intellectual developmenthalf-wittedslow-wittedfeebleminded