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Word definitions for backwards in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Backward or Backwards is a relative direction . Backwards may also refer to: "Backwards" (Red Dwarf episode) , episode of TV sitcom Backwards (novel) , a novel based on the episode Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia , 1984 American TV programme "Backwards" ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 oriented toward the back. 2 reversed. 3 (context derogatory English) behind current trends or technology. 4 clumsy, inept, or inefficient. adv. 1 Toward the back. 2 In the opposite direction to usual. 3 In a manner such that the back precedes the front. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backward \Back"ward\, Backwards \Back"wards\, adv. [Back, adv. + -ward.] 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. Thou wilt fall ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a backwards glance ▪ He took a quick backwards glance at the house, and then continued walking. a step backwards/a backward step (= an action that makes things worse ) ▪ A rationing system would be a major step backwards. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, from backward with adverbial genitive. Figurative phrase bend over backwards is recorded from 1901.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car" [syn: back , backward , rearward , rearwards ] [ant: forward ] in a manner or order or direction the reverse of ...
Usage examples of backwards.
The dance ended in a vigorous whirling during which the partners only touched with their hands and the tips of their feet and then, leaning far over backwards, turned in a bacchantic circle.
I wish the Bluenoses would find as good an excuse in their rumps for running backwards as he has.
I went up the slope backwards till I hit the rim, and then I turned and ducked into the bresh and run.
By the Bullnose Morris was a nervous, pacing, slyly smoking policeman, a cigarette cupped between his fingers, the glowing tip facing backwards, as though this simple precaution might make his illicit action the less obvious.
Slowly, laboriously, she tipped the chiffonnier backwards and forwards--once, twice, thrice--satisfied, yet strangely troubled in her mind, for she now felt sure that the bag of which the disappearance had so surprised her was there, safely locked away by its owner.
The same afternoon I descried the venerable warrior approaching the house, with a slow, stately gait, ear-rings in ears, and spear in hand, with this highly ornamental pair of shoes suspended from his neck by a strip of bark, and swinging backwards and forwards on his capacious chest.
He grabbed Digits by the front of his shirt and pushed him hard backwards.
Danaet, the factor would lecture her about dallying with a dockhand until the waves ran backwards.
There were Etruscan counterparts to the Latin letters C, E, F, K, and L, but they all faced backwards on almost every known Etruscan writing .
Marianna moves a few steps backwards, but Fila must have relit the candle because the light returns flickering in the doorway.
His eyes opened wide with astonishment, he gave Sharpe a puzzled, almost reproachful look, then slowly toppled backwards into one of the foetid puddles.
A-cup nothing and look at himself in the mirror sideways, frontways, backwards, then tear it off and leave the stretched, dead little animal print on the bed for me to find.
I pointed my gun and fired back twice, and the Gater toppled backwards.
He rose in agony, tearing himself free of her hands, bent and stood her up backwards to him, supporting her under the breasts, his elbows keeping her arms elevated.
She knows what reality is and she hates it, and she sucks it into herself and spews it out backwards.