Definition of Backwards

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Backwards

With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.

Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.

On the back, or with the back downward.

Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.

By way of reflection; reflexively.

From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.

In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.

Related Definitions:

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Backwards Quotations

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
Helen Keller

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
Rudyard Kipling

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
Robert Mugabe

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Backwards Translations

backwards in Afrikaans is agter
backwards in Dutch is achterwaarts, rugwaarts, achteruit
backwards in Norwegian is bakvendt, baklengs

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