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Definition of Backwards

1. Adverb. At or to or toward the back or rear. "She looked rearward out the window of the car"

2. Adverb. In a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal. "The child put her jersey on backward"

Definition of Backwards

1. Adjective. Oriented toward the back. ¹

2. Adjective. Reversed. ¹

3. Adjective. (derogatory) Behind current trends or technology. ¹

4. Adjective. Clumsy, inept, or inefficient. ¹

5. Adverb. Toward the back. ¹

6. Adverb. In the opposite direction of usual. ¹

7. Adverb. In a manner such that the back precedes the front. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Backwards

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backwards

backward compatible backward compliment backward curvature backward dive backward heart failure backward induction backward inductions backward linkage backward slash backwardation

backwardations backwardly backwardness backwardnesses backwards backwards compliment backwards roll backwards rolls backwardsness backwash

backwash ileitis backwashed backwashes backwashing backwater backwatered backwatering backwaterish backwaters

Literary usage of Backwards

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1856)
"The incision should be directed from before backwards, and not transversely, ... Dislocation of the Humérus backwards into the Infra-spinous Fossa.—DR. ..."

2. The Measurement of Intelligence: An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for by Lewis Madison Terman (1916)
"Counting backwards from 20 to 1 Procedure. Say to the child: " You can count backwards, ... I want you to count backwards for me from 20 to I. Go ahead. ..."

3. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1904)
"Dr. Arnold says somewhere that he wishes the public might have a history of our present state of society traced backwards. It is the present that really ..."

4. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"Reformation goes backwards. King Henry justly blamed; compared with King Jehu. ... but went backwards, the Six Articles being therein enacted,— that whip ..."

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