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