Definition: 1. Directed or facing toward the back or rear. 2. (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature. 3. Retarded in intellectual development. 4. At or to or toward the back or rear. 5. In a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal. 6. In or to or toward a past time.
Use 'backward' in a sentence:
1. They glanced backward over their shoulders from time to time, apprehensively, as if they feared they might be followed.
2. All movements must begin with a backward motion with a very few exceptions.
3. People still think of it as a backward country.
4. She is forward in English but backward in math.
5. It is still a backward country.
6. He works backward, building a house from the top downward.
7. You'd better take a backward glance from time to time when you are on a crowded bus with your bag.
8. Those in the north had little idea how to govern the economically backward south.
9. Another set of participants had to count backward from 1,000 by nines as they watched the clips, occupying their conscious working memory.
10. The child is backward in his studies.
11. At a certain age, it's not viable for men to take a backward step into unskilled work.
12. She gave me a backward glance.
13. Use of backward movement ⅲ,ⅳ and mainly on two types of action to the first type of action based ⅲ.
14. If you could move at the speed of light, your time would stand still, if you could move faster than light, your time would move backward.
15. This part of the country is still backward; there are no railways or motor-roads, and no electricity.
16. You can not be unkind to your mother when she has bent over backward to please you.
17. She felt that going back to live in her home town would be a backward step.
18. No human race anywhere on earth is so backward that it has no language of its own at all.
19. Beijing is backward most prime cause is innovating at system lack.
20. Mars, in contrast, has a wildly oscillating tilt and chaotic seasonality, while Venus, rotating slowly backward, has virtually no seasonality at all.
21. I was slow to walk and talk and my parents thought I was backward.
22. He moved a step backward/ backwards.
23. The rainy season is backward this year.
24. He did a backward flip.
25. In spite of Mrs. Medlock's warning, Mr. Roach only just escaped being sufficiently undignified to jump backward.
26. The car shot backward because that man had left it in reverse.
27. Backward children need a special kind of schooling.
28. People in some backward regions still live a life without electricity.
29. The crops are early [ backward] this year.
30. Instead of casting a wistful glance backward at all the species we've left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real costs of our own intelligence might be.
31. She was walking backward on the walkway.
32. The backward place has changed into an industrial center.
33. Remember this engine is running backward, and we're pumping heat up.
34. During a game, while sliding into third base, my cleat caught and pulled my foot to the right and backward as my body fell forward.
35. The present sheds a backward light on the world's previous processes.
36. The diver flipped over backward into the water.
37. The backward place has changed into an industrial centre.
38. She was not backward this time.
39. "Oh! It's going backward!" he cried.
40. It is the season for some frantic last-minute math across the country, employees of all stripe are counting backward in an attempt to figure out just how much paid time-off they have left it their reserves.
41. The car passed over the body twice, once backward and then forward.
42. I was surprised by the lack of transmission creep and the fact that the car will roll backward if you take your foot off the brake on an incline.
43. She strode past him without a backward glance.
44. He walked away without a backward glance.
45. He unlocked the door of apartment two and disappeared inside after a backward glance at Larry.
46. Churchill got some surprised stares in 1941 when, evidently unaware of the vulgar usage, he gave the palm-backward "V" to British troops.
47. You see how this epicycle theory could account for the seemingly backward motion of the planet.
48. We need to accelerate the pace of change in our backward country.
49. Shall we sway backward and forward, Mary, as if we were dervishes?
50. He took two steps backward.
51. What if that same process could be run in reverse, like a movie run backward?
52. It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backward through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.
53. The current U.S. farm bill, however, is a big step backward.
