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Synonyms for backwater
ˈbækˌwɔ tər, -ˌwɒt ərback·wa·ter
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backwaternoun
Synonyms:
one-horse town, jerkwater town, Podunk
Princeton's WordNet
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"
backwaternoun
a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring
"the country is an economic backwater"
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How to use backwater in a sentence?
They believe that people who want to live by their faith are backwater people, hillary and her team hold evangelicals in disdain.
Their contempt for Catholicism is palpable. they believe that people who want to live by their faith are backwater people.
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.
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.
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- راكدةArabic
- ύδατα πίσω από διάφραγμαGreek
- ciar, remanso, patelínSpanish
- patelinFrench
- porfészek, visszaduzzasztásHungarian
- acqua di invasoItalian
- 奥地, 僻地Japanese
- auhokiMāori
- bakevjeNorwegian
- zaścianek, prowincjaPolish
- застой, захолустье, гребок, глушь, подпор, грести, заводь, глубинка, навстречуRussian
- мртво мореSerbo-Croatian
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