backwards

Speech parts

1. backwards - Adjective

2. backwards - Adverb

Meaning

With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.

Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.

On the back, or with the back downward.

Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.

By way of reflection; reflexively.

From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.

In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

back backward rearward rearwards conversely over about around return away behind again round opposed opposite
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Antonyms

supra down modern developed leading commercial
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Phrases with the word

bend over backwards bent over backwards as dry as a bulls bum going up a hill backwards move backwards go at backwards drive backwards

Anagrams

drawbacks

Examples

To repent is not to look downwards at my own shortcomings, but upwards at God's love, it is not to look backwards with self-reproach but forward with trustfulness, it is to see not what I have failed to be, but what by the grace of Christ I might yet become. John Climacus

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. Lewis Carroll

A cat will teach her young ones all the tricks, except how to jump backwards. Netherlands Antillean Proverb

He who does not advance goes backwards. French Proverb

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

backwardly backwardness backwardness in coming forward backwards compatibility backwards compatible backwards compliment