backward
backward is a 8-letter English word with 16 senses as adverb, adjective, noun, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Alt. of Backwards. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adverb. Alt. of Backwards
- adjective. Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.
- adjective. Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.
- adjective. Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child.
- adjective. Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.
- adjective. Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.
- adjective. Already past or gone; bygone.
- noun. The state behind or past.
- intransitive verb. To keep back; to hinder.
- adjective. directed or facing toward the back or rear
"a backward view"
- adjective. (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
"a backward lover"
- adjective. having made less than normal progress
"an economically backward country"
- adjective. retarded in intellectual development
- adverb. in or to or toward a past time
"set the clocks back an hour"
"never look back"
- adverb. at or to or toward the back or rear
"he moved back"
"tripped when he stepped backward"
- adverb. 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
feebleminded, back, backwards, rearward, rearwards
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in backward:
Common word forms
backwards, backwardly, backwardness
Words from these letters
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