backwater

Speech parts

1. backwater - Noun

2. backwater - Verb

Meaning

Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current, or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.

An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction.

Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

podunk river bush marsh hamlet slough bayou nook frontier reef outback oxbow badlands country hillbilly
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Antonyms

metropolis city central city bravado casbah civic center
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Hypernyms

water region body of water

Phrases with the word

backwater district second-rate backwater at the backwater in a backwater backwater planet

Examples

the country is an economic backwater Source: Internet

the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos Source: Internet

A focus on the economic impact of the 2019 lower Delta backwater flood helps predict the implications of continued flooding in 2020. Source: Internet

Crocodiles are rare and inhabit only the backwaters of the Indus, eastern Nara channel and Karachi backwater. Source: Internet

A very long time after the beginning of the Pantropy program, a starship crewed by "standard" humans is en route to some unimportant backwater planet to deliver a pantropy team who are "adapted" humans resembling seals more than humans. Source: Internet

But given the originality of Mehrgarh, Jarrige concludes that Mehrgarh has an earlier local background," and is not a "'backwater' of the Neolithic culture of the Near East." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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