Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adverb
With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
- 2adverb
Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
- 3adverb
On the back, or with the back downward.
- 4adverb
Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
- 5adverb
By way of reflection; reflexively.
- 6adverb
From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
- 7adverb
In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.
- 8adverb
at or to or toward the back or rear
"he moved back"
"tripped when he stepped backward"
- 9adverb
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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