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Synonyms for backwards
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Wiktionary
backwardsadjective
Oriented toward the back.
The battleship had three backwards guns at the stern, in addition to the primary complement.
Synonyms:
rearward, hindwards, retrogradebackwardsadverb
In the opposite direction of usual.
The clock did not work because the battery was inserted backwards.
Synonyms:
switched, back to front, reversedly, contrariwise, mirror imagebackwardsadjective
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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in reverse, obsolete, crude, dated, primitive, back to frontbackwardsadjective
Clumsy, inept, or inefficient.
He was a very backwards scholar, but he was a marvel on the football field.
Synonyms:
fumbling, awkward, incompetent, poor
Princeton's WordNet
back, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwardsadverb
at or to or toward the back or rear
"he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car"
backward, backwardsadverb
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"
Editors Contribution
magnetic reversal
going the opposite way
we should do the steps backwards to solve the problem.
Submitted by rinat on September 4, 2019reverse order
they have the same meaning
reverse the order you are headed go backwards
Dictionary of English Synonymes
backwardsadjective
Synonyms:
regressively, rearwards, aback, behind, ABAFT
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "backwards":
back, backward, retrograde, rearward, upside-down, behind, ago, back-to-front
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#103 | back | |
#808 | ago | |
#1531 | behind | |
#1711 | poor | |
#5171 | dated | |
#9742 | switched | |
#9920 | crude | |
#10591 | primitive | |
#12026 | backward | |
#12297 | obsolete | |
#12694 | backwards | |
#17452 | awkward | |
#24911 | incompetent | |
#38684 | retrograde | |
#57710 | fumbling | |
#90539 | rearward | |
#179283 | contrariwise |
How to use backwards in a sentence?
[ Those car companies ] have a clear intention to go global, in contrast to what we’re seeing in globalized countries that want to go backwards.
We have to be clear - the salafists are a step backwards for society, this is not something that we can resolve in two years. It is much more complex than that.
Ukraine has experienced so much religious freedom over the last 30 years, and that's the threat [right now]. I have quite a few relationships with evangelical leaders, pastors and nonprofits, and the threat for them is about going backwards — going backwards 30 years, 40 years, and not being able to express their faith.
What we did is we just went backwards on helping people with mental health needs, substance abuse disorders, and the homeless. Those three things go hand in hand, these laws have done nothing to protect those people and help those people get out of the situation they’re in.
The government was not happy with us not bidding that contract because they had felt that...they had bent over backwards to lean the fill to our advantage. We saw it as a cost shootout between us and SpaceX.
Translations for backwards
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- pozpátkuCzech
- rückwärtsGerman
- προς τα πίσω, επαναφορά επιστροφήGreek
- malantaŭenEsperanto
- invertido, a contrapelo, hacia atrásSpanish
- tagasisuunas, saamatu, vanamoodne, peegelpilt, tahapoole, tagurpidiEstonian
- väärinpäin, kelvoton, taaksepäin, takaperin, vanhanaikainenFinnish
- visszafeléHungarian
- ke belakangIndonesian
- indietroItalian
- 뒤로Korean
- بهرهودوا, پاشهوپاش, دواکهوتوKurdish
- whakatuaraMāori
- achterwaartsDutch
- смотрящий, назад, направленныйRussian
- bakåtriktad, efter, omvänd, baklänges, efterbliven, bakvändSwedish
- назадUkrainian
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