Definition of Backward

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Backward

Alt. of Backwards

Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.

Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.

Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child.

Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.

Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.

Already past or gone; bygone.

The state behind or past.

To keep back; to hinder.

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Backward Quotations

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill

Revolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Vladimir Lenin

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Josef Albers

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. Mencken

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
Marshall McLuhan

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke

Backward Translations

backward in Afrikaans is agterlik
backward in Dutch is achterover

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