backwards

backwards is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 23 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adverb. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
2. adverb. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
3. adverb. On the back, or with the back downward.
4. adverb. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
5. adverb. By way of reflection; reflexively.
6. adverb. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
7. adverb. In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.
8. adverb. at or to or toward the back or rear

   "he moved back"

   "tripped when he stepped backward"

   Synonyms: back, backward, rearward, rearwards

9. 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: backward

Synonyms

back, backward, rearward, rearwards

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in backwards:

drawbacks

Common word forms

backward

Words from these letters

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