Dictionary Entry
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.
8 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 22 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1adverb
Alt. of Backwards
- 2adjective
Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.
- 3adjective
Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.
- 4adjective
Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child.
- 5adjective
Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.
- 6adjective
Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.
- 7adjective
Already past or gone; bygone.
- 8noun
The state behind or past.
- 9intransitive verb
To keep back; to hinder.
- 10adjective
directed or facing toward the back or rear
"a backward view"
- 11adjective
(used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
"a backward lover"
- 12adjective
having made less than normal progress
"an economically backward country"
- 13adjective
retarded in intellectual development
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- 14adverb
in or to or toward a past time
"set the clocks back an hour"
"never look back"
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- 15adverb
at or to or toward the back or rear
"he moved back"
"tripped when he stepped backward"
- 16adverb
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"
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