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Meaning of backward

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  backward
      adv 1: 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},
             {backwards}, {rearward}, {rearwards}] [ant: {forrad},
             {forrard}, {forward}, {forwards}, {frontward},
             {frontwards}]
      2: in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal;
         "it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like
         `seize' and `siege'"; "the child put her jersey on backward"
         [syn: {backward}, {backwards}]
      3: in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an
         hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly
         backward" [syn: {back}, {backward}] [ant: {ahead}, {forward}]
      adj 1: directed or facing toward the back or rear; "a backward
             view" [ant: {forward}]
      2: (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring
         nature; "a backward lover" [ant: {forward}]
      3: retarded in intellectual development [syn: {backward}, {half-
         witted}, {slow-witted}, {feebleminded}]
      4: having made less than normal progress; "an economically
         backward country"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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