Backwards Definition

bakwərdz
adverb

Backward.

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Toward the back.

The cabinet toppled over backwards.
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.—Søren Kierkegaard.
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In the opposite direction of usual.

The clock did not work because the battery was inserted backwards.
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In a manner such that the back precedes the front.
The tour guide walked backwards while droning on to the bored seniors.
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adjective

Oriented toward the back.

The battleship had three backwards guns at the stern, in addition to the primary complement.
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Reversed.

The backwards lettering on emergency vehicles makes it possible to read in the rear-view mirror.
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(derogatory) Behind current trends or technology.

Modern medicine regards the use of leeches as a backwards practice.
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Clumsy, inept, or inefficient.

He was a very backwards scholar, but he was a marvel on the football field.
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Origin of Backwards

  • backward +‎ -s. See -s (Etymology 3)

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Backwards Sentence Examples

  • From a distance, it looked as if he leapt backwards into the abyss.

  • It may open either forward or backwards; and although present in the great majority of the species, and enclosing the teats, it may, as in many of the opossums, be completely absent, when the teats extend in two rows along the whole length of the under-surface of the body.

  • Pouch complete, generally opening backwards.

  • Instinct and fury blinded him.  He felt the dagger sink into flesh and struck again, only to find himself flying backwards through the air.  Rhyn shouted something at him, but Kris couldn't hear him, not with the memory of both Lilith and Hannah dying.

  • Premolars with compressed crowns, increasing in size from before backwards.

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Words Starting With

BBABAC

Words Ending With

SDSRDS

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backwards

Words Starting With B and Ending With S

Starts With B & Ends With SStarts With BA & Ends With SStarts With B & Ends With DS

Word Length

9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With B9 Letter Words Ending With S