DICTOMETER

BACKWARD

(backward, hacia atrás, bakover)

1. Synonyms:
   • Backward
   Definitions:
   • directed or facing toward the back or rear
   Examples:
   • A backward view
   Antonyms:
   • FORWARD
   • guardant(postnominal), gardant(postnominal), full-face
   • headfirst, headlong
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Backward
   Definitions:
   • (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
   Examples:
   • A backward lover
   Antonyms:
   • FORWARD
   • brash, cheeky, nervy
   • bumptious, self-assertive
   • overfamiliar
   • fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy, wise
   • assumptive, assuming, presumptuous
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Backward
   • Half-witted
   • Slow-witted
   • Feebleminded
   Definitions:
   • retarded in intellectual development
   Antonyms:
   • Precocious
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Backward
   Definitions:
   • having made less than normal progress
   Examples:
   • An economically backward country
   Antonyms:
   • Dynamic
   • Dynamical
   
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Back
   • Backward
   • Backwards
   • Rearward
   • Rearwards
   Definitions:
   • at or to or toward the back or rear
   Examples:
   • He moved back
   • Tripped when he stepped backward
   • She looked rearward out the window of the car
   Antonyms:
   forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards, forrad, forrard
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Backward
   • Backwards
   Definitions:
   • in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
   Examples:
   • It's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'
   • The child put her jersey on backward
   Antonyms:
   ahead, forward
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Back
   • Backward
   Definitions:
   • in or to or toward a past time
   Examples:
   • Set the clocks back an hour
   • Never look back
   • Lovers of the past looking fondly backward