backward
Adjective
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also:
- regressive - opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state
- retrospective - concerned with or related to the past
similar to:- backswept, sweptback - used of hair
- cacuminal, retroflex - pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate
- converse, reversed, transposed - turned about in order or relation
- inverse, reverse - reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect
- rearward, reverse - directed or moving toward the rear
- receding - (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back
- reflexive, self-referent - referring back to itself
- regardant - looking backward
- retracted - drawn back and in
- retral, retrograde - moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
- retroflex, retroflexed - bent or curved backward
- returning, reversive - tending to be turned back
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also: timid - showing fear and lack of confidence
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domain usage: archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expressionsimilar to: retarded - relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development
Adverb
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