Backward - Definition

adv 1: 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" [syn: back, backward,
backwards, rearward, rearwards] [ant: forrad,
forrard, forward, forwards, frontward,
frontwards]
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: backward, 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, backward] [ant: ahead, forward]
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: backward, half-
witted, slow-witted, feebleminded]
4: having made less than normal progress; "an economically
backward country"