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Definition of Backward

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. Related Definitions: Advanced, Already, Alt, Apprehension, As, Averse, Back, Backward, Backwards, Behind, Behindhand, Bygone, Child, Civilization, Country, Directed, Dull, Gone, Hesitating, Hinder, In, Inapt, Is, Keep, Late, Learning, Loath, Not, Of, Or, Past, Quick, Rear, Region, Reluctant, Season, State, The, To, Unwilling, Well

Backward Quotations You can't look forward and backward at the same time. Coleman Young I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. Abraham Lincoln Revolutions go not backward. Ralph Waldo Emerson The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. Winston Churchill 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

Backward Translations backward in Afrikaans is agterlik backward in Dutch is achterover

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