adjective🔗ShareOriented toward the back."The battleship had three backwards guns at the stern, in addition to the primary complement."directionpositionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareReversed."The backwards lettering on emergency vehicles makes it possible to read in the rear-view mirror."directionwayChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareBehind current trends or technology."Modern medicine regards the use of leeches as a backwards practice."technologyculturestyleChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareClumsy, inept, or inefficient, especially in learning."He was a very backwards scholar, but he was a marvel on the football field."characterattitudehumanabilityqualityChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adverb🔗ShareToward the back."Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.—Søren Kierkegaard"directionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adverb🔗ShareIn the opposite direction to usual."The clock did not work because the battery was inserted backwards."directionwayChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adverb🔗ShareIn a manner such that the back precedes the front."The tour guide walked backwards while droning on to the bored seniors."directionwayChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adverb🔗ShareTowards the past; ago"My grandmother often talked about her childhood, and how things were done backwards, many years ago. "directiontimeChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
