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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Backward \Back"ward\, v. i. To keep back to hinder. [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Backward \Back"ward\, Backwards \Back"wards\, adv [Back, adv + -ward.] 1. With the back in advance or foremost; as to ride backward. 2. Toward the back toward the rear; as to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. --Shak. 4. Toward, or in past time or events; ago. Some reigns backward. --Locke. 5. By way of reflection; reflexively. --Sir J. Davies. 6. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. The work went backward. --Dryden. 7. In a contrary or reverse manner, way or direction; contrarily; as to read backwards. We might have . . . beat them backward home. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Backward \Back"ward\, a. 1. Directed to the back or rear; as backward glances. 2. Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves. --Pope. 3. Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as a backward child. ``The backward learner.'' --South. 4. Late or behindhand; as a backward season. 5. Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as the country or region is in a backward state. 6. Already past or gone; bygone. [R.] And flies unconscious o'er each backward year. --Byron. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Backward \Back"ward\, n. The state behind or past. [Obs.] In the dark backward and abysm of time. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: backward adj 1: directed or facing toward the back or rear; "a backward view" [ant: {forward}] 2: (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature; "a backward lover" [ant: {forward}] 3: retarded in intellectual development [syn: {feebleminded}] adv 1: at or to or toward or the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car" [syn: {back}, {backwards}, {rearward}, {rearwards}] [ant: {forward}] 2: 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" [syn: {backwards}] 3: in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward" [syn: {back}] [ant: {ahead}, {ahead}]
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