Definitions for backward

backward back·ward

Spelling: [bak-werd]
IPA: /ˈbæk wərd/

Backward is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in backward (aabcdkrw).

Definitions for backward

Idioms

  1. backward and forward, thoroughly: Also, backwards and forwards.

adverb

  1. toward the back or rear.
  2. with the back foremost.
  3. in the reverse of the usual or right way:
  4. toward the past:
  5. toward a less advanced state; retrogressively:

adjective

  1. directed toward the back or past.
  2. reversed; returning:
  3. behind in time or progress; late; slow:
  4. bashful or hesitant; shy:

Origin of backward

First recorded in 1250-1300, backward is from the Middle English word bakwarde. See back1, -ward

Examples for backward

The Founders—so backward in their attitudes on race—launched the republic on the basis of religious tolerance.

backward, backward, backward Ghana ran, and frantically…toward its own endangered goal.

Authoritarianism And backward Priorities There does not need to be a HealthCare.gov, and there need be no state-run websites.

Have the children of the well-to-do been backward in volunteering?

The Dauphine was not backward in repeating this word for word.

There has been a lot of talk about leaning forward and backward.

So finding that, and finding the arrangement that was forward and backward at once, was difficult.

Fair on each shield struck a lance, and backward reeled their holders.

The dog-musher indicated White Fang with a backward thrust of his thumb.

The recoil, catching him in a bad posture, knocked him backward.

Word Value for backward
Scrable

20

Words with friends

22

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