Synonyms for backwater
ˈbækˌwɔ tər, -ˌwɒt ərback·wa·ter

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1. backwaternoun

   Synonyms:
   one-horse town, jerkwater town, Podunk

Princeton's WordNet

1. backwaternoun

   a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam

   "the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos"

2. backwaternoun

   a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring

   "the country is an economic backwater"

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1. • Body Of Water
   • Region

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1. List of paraphrases for "backwater":

   eddy, closet, stir

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1. Tony Perkins:

   They believe that people who want to live by their faith are backwater people, hillary and her team hold evangelicals in disdain.

2. Tony Perkins:

   Their contempt for Catholicism is palpable. they believe that people who want to live by their faith are backwater people.

3. Robin Rnnlund:

   The preliminary results of our investigation are important as they give clear evidence that western Thessaly was no backwater, but a rich and vibrant society within the ancient world.

4. Barbara Ehrenreich:

   In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.