Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See backward.
Wiktionary
- adj. Oriented toward the back.
- adj. Reversed.
- adj. Behind current trends or technology.
- adj. Clumsy, inept, or inefficient.
- adv. Toward the back.
- adv. In the opposite direction of usual.
- adv. In a manner such that the back precedes the front.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. at or to or toward the back or rear
- adv. in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
Examples
“He is to skip three times while repeating thrice the following sentence, and after repeating three times forwards and backwards: thus (_forwards_) -- 'Fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of thine arm; they shall be as still as a stone'; thus (_backwards_) -- 'Still as a stone may they be; by the greatness of thine arm may fear and dread fall on them'; he then is to say to his neighbour three times, 'Peace be unto you,' and the neighbour is to respond three times, 'Unto you be peace.”
“' We are definitely going in backwards from the way we wanted to, '' said Romo, who was 23-of-32 for 321 yards with two touchdowns.”
“Amabo Kcarab!!! you say his name backwards and it opens a portal which sucks american jobs into oblivion”
“Spirits in the Material World - The Police if you read the title backwards it says eciloP ehT - dlroW lairetaM eht ni stiripS”
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“The word backwards is also mirror-imaged, which typepad wouldn't let me do, but it all adds to the allure of the book, as does the lime gree ribbon bookmark, and offers plenty to talk about with children.”
“Yep, my last name backwards is so horrible I won't even tell you what it is.”
“Zemeks -- young, proud, not real-life worldly yet; that's ok, young Grasshopper -- you need to live a few more years on earth before you can engage me with your "real world" observations and advice; your name backwards is Skemez -- "schemes?" how you made it through school and interviews? it figures;”
“Emily Mann, the director, wrote in a program note that the word "backwards" was used in the title for two reasons.”
“While those spacecraft performed admirably over the life of Apollo is not NASA taking a step backwards from the shuttle program?”
“You take that “what not to do,” where I scored a big fat zero, and you multiply it by the number of people who contact me and the number of days I persist in backwards marketing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘backwards’.
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SECOND LETTER A
Words in which the second letter is A
Aa, AAA, Baba, Babe, Babel, AAAA, tangential, baby, bach, back, bad, bade and 90 more...
zc0000 Lookbehind has the same effect, but works backwards. Jun 3, 2010