backward

1. Directed or facing toward the back or rear (synset 300202946)
   "a backward view"
   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
2. (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature (synset 300205669)
   "a backward lover"
   also: timid - showing fear and lack of confidence
   similar to: bashful, blate - disposed to avoid notice
3. Retarded in intellectual development (synset 301846588)
   domain usage: archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression
   similar to: retarded - relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development
   same as: feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted
4. Having made less than normal progress (synset 300814205)
   "an economically backward country"
   similar to: adynamic, undynamic - characterized by an absence of force or forcefulness

1. At or to or toward the back or rear (synset 400074673)
   "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car"
   same as: back, backwards, rearward, rearwards
2. In a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal (synset 400076232)
   "it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'"; "the child put her jersey on backward"
   same as: backwards
3. In or to or toward a past time (synset 400074467)
   "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward"
   same as: back

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