What is another word for backward?
2739 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ bˈakwəd], [ bˈakwəd], [ b_ˈa_k_w_ə_d]Table of Contents
Similar words for backward:- afraid (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- back (adjective)
- bashful (adjective)
- benighted (adjective)
- cowardly (adjective)
- coy (adjective)
- crude (adjective)
- demure (adjective)
- desolate (adjective)
- diffident (adjective)
- dilatory (adjective)
- disinclined (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- fearful (adjective)
- godforsaken (adjective)
- half-baked (adjective)
- hesitant (adjective)
- hind (adjective)
- humble (adjective)
- ignorant (adjective)
- imbecile (adjective)
- indisposed (adjective)
- inverted (adjective)
- late (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- overturned (adjective)
- procrastinating (adjective)
- rear (adjective)
- regressive (adjective)
- reluctant (adjective)
- reserved (adjective)
- retarded (adjective)
- retiring (adjective)
- retrograde (adjective)
- retrospective (adjective)
- reversed (adjective)
- self-controlled (adjective)
- self-effacing (adjective)
- self-restrained (adjective)
- shy (adjective)
- simple (adjective)
- slow (adjective)
- slow in growth (adjective)
- soft (adjective)
- tardy (adjective)
- tentative (adjective)
- toward the rear (adjective)
- unassuming (adjective)
- undeveloped (adjective)
- unlearned (adjective)
- unprogressive (adjective)
- unwilling (adjective)
- upside-down (adjective)
- vacillant (adjective)
- vacillatory (adjective)
- backwards (adverb)
- late (adverb)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- all (adverb)
- backwards (adverb)
- behind (adverb)
- tardily (adverb)
- backswept (noun)
- backward (noun)
- dull (noun)
- worse (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Backward:
adj.
•afraid (adjective)- un eager,
- un-happier,
- un-happiest,
- more uneager,
- un happy,
- un-happy,
- un happiest,
- un-eager,
- un happier,
- unhappy,
- most uneager.
- Tailer,
- back of,
- tail,
- in the wake of,
- final.
- yellow-bellied,
- weak-kneed,
- no guts,
- having the willies,
- lacking courage,
- Cowhearted,
- pigeonhearted,
- Chicken-hearted,
- softer,
- running scared.
- ill bred,
- most cloddish,
- grodiest,
- un-skillful,
- indecent,
- un gainlier,
- un-enlightened,
- un-gainliest,
- more loud mouthed,
- most lowbred,
- more illbred,
- in-delicate,
- more lowbred,
- grodier,
- most ill bred,
- in decent,
- un couth,
- in-sensible,
- un-gainly,
- in sensible,
- in elegant,
- un gainliest,
- most loud-mouthed,
- in-decent,
- in-elegant,
- more cloddish,
- most ill-bred,
- un skillful,
- un-gainlier,
- more ill bred,
- most loud mouthed,
- more barnyard,
- most illbred,
- un gainly,
- loud mouthed,
- in delicate,
- oafish,
- most barnyard,
- more ill-bred,
- un enlightened,
- un-couth,
- more loud-mouthed.
- in securer,
- with-drawn,
- more unpoised,
- in secure,
- in securest,
- dis-trustful,
- un-obtrusive,
- un poised,
- most unpoised,
- in-secure,
- most flinching,
- un sure,
- more flinching,
- un-poised,
- more blenching,
- Unpoised,
- un obtrusive,
- with drawn,
- in-securest,
- un-sure,
- most blenching,
- dis trustful,
- in-securer.
- more balking,
- pro-testing,
- most shying,
- most balking,
- most objecting,
- un-sympathetic,
- more sticking,
- most sticking,
- dis inclined,
- more shying,
- more protesting,
- anti pathetic,
- not mood,
- most protesting,
- not the mood,
- more objecting,
- pro testing,
- un sympathetic,
- dis-inclined,
- not in mood,
- anti-pathetic.
- illconceived,
- more boneheaded,
- un-formed,
- in discreet,
- more illconceived,
- half baked,
- ill conceived,
- more ill-conceived,
- halfbaked,
- in-discreet,
- most boneheaded,
- most ill-conceived,
- short sighted,
- most illconceived,
- un formed,
- more ill conceived,
- under developed,
- under-developed,
- most ill conceived,
- Sophomoric.
- in decisive,
- most faltering,
- un predictable,
- Half-hearted,
- more faltering,
- un-predictable,
- more dawdling,
- most dawdling,
- in-decisive,
- doubting,
- half hearted.
- hind.
- un caring,
- un-caring,
- most uninclined,
- in disposed,
- in-disposed,
- un inclined,
- un-inclined,
- more uninclined.
- too late,
- held up,
- last-minute,
- out of luck,
- in a bind,
- unpunctual,
- in the lurch,
- eleventh-hour,
- latest,
- missed the boat.
- ill-conceived,
- unassured,
- poorly planned,
- cloddish,
- regressive,
- turned back,
- unexpansive,
- uneager,
- non-gregarious,
- mentally defective,
- loud-mouthed,
- lamebrained,
- inverted,
- half-baked,
- untutored,
- not in the mood,
- boneheaded,
- Unboastful,
- reserved,
- undeveloped,
- numbskull,
- slow,
- humble,
- overmodest,
- dumdum,
- reversed,
- diffident,
- hesitant,
- yo-yo,
- bashful,
- simple,
- vacillant,
- lacking confidence,
- gorked,
- wrong way,
- upended,
- retiring,
- ill-bred,
- nongregarious,
- unassertive,
- wrong-side-up,
- Uncompanionable,
- uneffusive,
- overturned,
- birdbrained,
- unwilling,
- Self-restrained,
- lowbred,
- bottom side up,
- degenerative,
- crude,
- unpresuming,
- uninclined,
- YOYO,
- non-committal,
- not forward,
- illbred,
- tentative,
- dull,
- unprogressive,
- blushful,
- in chaos,
- bottom up,
- underachieving,
- bottom-side-up,
- contrariwise,
- late,
- self-controlled,
- afraid,
- retrospective,
- on head,
- coy,
- Shying,
- not arrived,
- rear,
- eremitic,
- reluctant,
- demure,
- strapped for time,
- retardo,
- grody,
- imbecile,
- shy,
- rabbity,
- upside-down,
- over-modest,
- unsocial,
- Unaffable,
- downside-up,
- Everted.
- in voluntary,
- dis heartened,
- most disheartened,
- more grudging,
- most demurring,
- more demurring,
- more disheartened,
- in-voluntary,
- dis-heartened,
- most grudging.
- more reclusive,
- mis anthropic,
- un approachable,
- more eremitic,
- most eremitic,
- non committal,
- most uncompanionable,
- selfcontained,
- re strained,
- un companionable,
- un responsive,
- un-approachable,
- un-companionable,
- close mouthed,
- self-contained,
- re-served,
- mis-anthropic,
- un-communicative,
- more uncompanionable,
- un-responsive,
- re-strained,
- self contained,
- un-demonstrative,
- re served,
- un demonstrative.
- most retardo,
- most yo yo,
- re tardo,
- more underachieving,
- most dumbbell,
- sub-normal,
- most lamebrained,
- most pinhead,
- yo yo,
- most dumdum,
- dummiest,
- most subnormal,
- most yo-yo,
- most numbskull,
- more yo-yo,
- under achieving,
- more pinhead,
- more yoyo,
- more numbskull,
- more yo yo,
- more subnormal,
- re-tardo,
- more dumdum,
- slowwitted,
- more dumbo,
- more gorked,
- most underachieving,
- under-achieving,
- slow witted,
- sub normal,
- more lamebrained,
- more retardo,
- dummier,
- most yoyo,
- more dumbbell,
- most gorked,
- most dumbo.
- re-tiring,
- un affable,
- with drawing,
- most nongregarious,
- most withdrawing,
- more unexpansive,
- most unaffable,
- with-drawing,
- un-sociable,
- most unexpansive,
- non gregarious,
- more unaffable,
- more nongregarious,
- un expansive,
- more withdrawing,
- un-expansive,
- re tiring,
- un-affable.
- more transposed,
- more everted,
- trans posed,
- more regressive,
- most everted,
- trans-posed,
- re versed,
- re-versed,
- most contrariwise,
- most transposed,
- most regressive,
- most turned,
- more turned,
- more contrariwise.
- most unboastful,
- more unboastful,
- selfeffacing,
- re signed,
- un boastful,
- un presuming,
- un-boastful,
- most unpresuming,
- more unpresuming,
- re-signed,
- un-presuming,
- self effacing.
- more unsocial,
- un social,
- un-effusive,
- more introvert,
- most unsocial,
- un-social,
- most uneffusive,
- un effusive,
- most introvert,
- introvert,
- more uneffusive.
- slowest,
- impeded,
- slow on the uptake,
- gradual,
- slow on uptake,
- draggy,
- time-consuming,
- long delayed,
- long-delayed.
- un assuming,
- un-assuming,
- most unpretending,
- unassuming,
- unpretending,
- un pretending,
- un-pretending,
- more unpretending.
- un learned,
- most untutored,
- un versed,
- un civilized,
- un tutored,
- un-versed,
- un-schooled,
- un-tutored,
- un schooled,
- un-learned,
- un-civilized,
- un-scholarly,
- un scholarly,
- more untutored.
- helterskelter,
- mixedup,
- most bottom-side-up,
- in disarray,
- downsideup,
- helter skelter,
- more downside-up,
- up-ended,
- wrong side up,
- up ended,
- dis-ordered,
- most downside-up,
- more downsideup,
- upsidedown,
- more wrong side up,
- more wrong-side-up,
- topsy turvy,
- most downsideup,
- more upended,
- most downside up,
- more bottom side up,
- more downside up,
- most wrong-side-up,
- most wrong side up,
- most upended,
- more bottom-side-up,
- dis ordered,
- most bottom side up,
- haywire,
- downside up.
adv
•backwards (adverb) •late (adverb) •Other relevant words: (adverb)adv.
•all (adverb) •backwards (adverb) •behind (adverb) •tardily (adverb)n.
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•
- at one time,
- previously,
- unenlightened,
- already,
- once,
- one day,
- delayed,
- past,
- before,
- ago,
- arrested.
-
•
- try,
- conciliate,
- face downward,
- face down,
- be fair,
- upside down,
- back to front,
- upturned,
- inside-out,
- the right/wrong/other way (around/up).
-
•
- latent,
- latency,
- stagnation,
- dormant,
- stunted,
- retrogressive,
- precede,
- slowly,
- stagnant.
-
•
- ability.
-
•
- lagging.
-
•
- disadvantaged,
- rich,
- deprived.
- inverse,
- reverse,
- converse,
- retracted,
- retral,
- reversive,
- reflexive,
- receding,
- sweptback,
- regardant,
- negative,
- retroflex,
- feebleminded,
- blate,
- cacuminal,
- returning,
- self-referent,
- retroflexed,
- transposed.
v.
•Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- maniac,
- psycho,
- around,
- underprivileged,
- depressed,
- topsy-turvy,
- lunatic,
- Against,
- timid,
- From,
- underdeveloped,
- peg leg,
- Feeble-minded,
- simple-minded,
- midget.
-
•
- dwarf,
- vegetable,
- sharp,
- impoverished,
- Weak-minded,
- cripple.
-
•
- ignorant.
-
•
- weak.
-
•
- soft.
- buttoned-down,
- effort,
- remember,
- lilliputian,
- adage,
- inattentive,
- appease,
- advancing,
- bank note,
- block off,
- menses,
- dumdum bullet,
- drag,
- slacken,
- almost,
- just about,
- hindquarters,
- submit,
- off,
- extinct,
- sticky,
- linear,
- childlike,
- retardation,
- humpback whale,
- tone down,
- primaeval,
- subjugate,
- moribund,
- chili pepper,
- musical accompaniment,
- knifelike,
- assault,
- traditionalist,
- hedge,
- afterwards,
- flesh out,
- endeavour,
- parallel,
- go to bed,
- downcast,
- insensible,
- delinquent,
- damp,
- brilliance,
- hark back,
- dilly-dally,
- cracker-barrel,
- gooselike,
- remit,
- oversight,
- dispirited,
- declivity,
- underlying,
- forsake,
- fugacious,
- flight,
- cautious,
- antipathetical,
- trimmed,
- sickly,
- scrubby,
- procrastination,
- turn around,
- plenteous,
- stodgy,
- agone,
- disapproval,
- think,
- draw off,
- erst,
- draw poker,
- surpassingly,
- rough-hew,
- belt down,
- abide,
- financial assistance,
- break up,
- streamlined,
- acuate,
- minor,
- free fall,
- abbreviate,
- jerky,
- skeptical,
- spinal column,
- dinero,
- stave,
- excursus,
- cagy,
- sailing,
- graceless,
- negatively charged,
- bed,
- hinterland,
- or so,
- midst,
- second,
- stereotypic,
- regression toward the mean,
- diametric,
- date back,
- bear out,
- fag end,
- overshadow,
- terminate,
- affirm,
- coolheaded,
- give up,
- boring,
- dysphoric,
- vicious,
- bum,
- curve,
- pathetic,
- bow out,
- denudate,
- stale,
- bourgeois,
- decline,
- earthy,
- centering,
- recess,
- dead,
- blaze out,
- dart,
- aspinwall,
- fend,
- far-right,
- assay,
- crawl in,
- come down,
- lacking,
- derelict,
- peaked,
- weirdo,
- supplicant,
- petite,
- countermand,
- modish,
- sample,
- tranquillise,
- passage,
- rough out,
- abrupt,
- sawing machine,
- trail,
- materialistic,
- frigidity,
- entrust,
- slack water,
- vague,
- preeminence,
- boorish,
- sidewards,
- desert,
- set off,
- lessen,
- endeavor,
- kooky,
- rough in,
- dock,
- emasculated,
- thin out,
- former,
- line of latitude,
- expiration,
- vacate,
- outdoor,
- circular,
- rack,
- bolt,
- retreat,
- cold shoulder,
- cardinal,
- break away,
- demolish,
- bolt down,
- go,
- decadence,
- taboo,
- alfresco,
- ailing,
- opponent,
- cut down,
- simple regression,
- working,
- recollect,
- face,
- capitulation,
- simoleons,
- facile,
- ko'd,
- ass,
- substantiate,
- planar,
- ominous,
- pipe down,
- empennage,
- nail down,
- dah,
- trend,
- loco,
- slash,
- freighter,
- obstinate,
- banker's bill,
- gliding,
- put back,
- paired,
- delete,
- conservativist,
- dip,
- running play,
- bumpy,
- trailer,
- strip,
- reference book,
- stop consonant,
- cold-blooded,
- the other way around,
- go along,
- unknowing,
- apart,
- exterior,
- go bad,
- unproblematic,
- ulterior,
- improper,
- mental retardation,
- poky,
- cheerless,
- brush up,
- diminish,
- rotund,
- back country,
- reflex response,
- instinctive reflex,
- swallow,
- lily-livered,
- lull,
- au naturel,
- transient,
- give in,
- dazed,
- pugnacious,
- stop over,
- moonstruck,
- hushed,
- lagger,
- outmoded,
- attack,
- emaciated,
- resile,
- counselling,
- return,
- discount,
- about-face,
- forward-moving,
- unmannered,
- unostentatious,
- unreached,
- mount,
- date from,
- retort,
- edit out,
- retroversion,
- worsened,
- procrastinate,
- brush off,
- keep one's distance,
- flier,
- depart,
- detestable,
- flunk,
- misfortunate,
- deletion,
- opposite word,
- eminent,
- work-shy,
- imbibe,
- antagonistic,
- constraint,
- go down,
- forth river,
- rimed,
- position,
- aimless,
- recidivate,
- jejune,
- nescient,
- sledding,
- victorian,
- put out,
- spasmodic,
- strike out,
- declension,
- foreshorten,
- pull up stakes,
- face-to-face,
- near,
- federal reserve note,
- burbly,
- slow up,
- allow for,
- push down,
- rightist,
- decrease,
- come out of the closet,
- reconcile,
- sleeping,
- change by reversal,
- crawfish out,
- footfall,
- towering,
- developmentally challenged,
- debauched,
- impart,
- rehash,
- introductory,
- simpleton,
- buttocks,
- tush,
- approximative,
- unreachable,
- unqualified,
- notice,
- go away,
- void,
- recant,
- bilk,
- nearly,
- loose,
- come before,
- dog,
- contraclockwise,
- disfavour,
- buddy-buddy,
- precipitous,
- remark,
- seedy,
- loggerheaded,
- punt,
- reaction time,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- jam-packed,
- back away,
- back tooth,
- call back,
- highly strung,
- diminutive,
- heavy,
- accommodate,
- kip down,
- elbow room,
- whacko,
- earlier,
- boisterous,
- gloomy,
- dampen,
- lowly,
- dullard,
- hold on,
- call off,
- poop,
- beat,
- bonkers,
- electronegative,
- faint,
- gloaming,
- stone's throw,
- crash,
- digest,
- keen,
- laughable,
- slip by,
- derriere,
- gash,
- quarter,
- protagonist,
- obliquely,
- vagrant,
- fudge,
- silver,
- chase after,
- invert,
- policy change,
- mizzenmast,
- stoppage,
- lettuce,
- bomb,
- smooth-spoken,
- bequeath,
- morass,
- business,
- oldline,
- bring up,
- hack,
- fainthearted,
- trim down,
- shitless,
- blench,
- stagnancy,
- outdoor stage,
- inapt,
- draw in,
- discerning,
- embryotic,
- dark,
- okay,
- focusing,
- tolerate,
- nullify,
- retrieve,
- rotational latency,
- ridiculous,
- abjure,
- antique,
- wildness,
- square up,
- tirade,
- public square,
- shambling,
- citation,
- brook,
- pull down,
- filch,
- sop up,
- counsel,
- dissolute,
- in front,
- soft-witted,
- pelf,
- untoward,
- down in the mouth,
- kale,
- forrader,
- quagmire,
- fadeout,
- downhearted,
- pilfer,
- give way,
- exceptional,
- nobble,
- screen,
- prove,
- offset,
- cretin,
- go out,
- falloff,
- collected,
- flyer,
- lay off,
- pervert,
- scratch,
- prat,
- by,
- cockeyed,
- come back,
- dotty,
- straightlaced,
- strained,
- uncomely,
- reduce,
- next,
- turn in,
- political science,
- turn back,
- hamper,
- eloquent,
- miserable,
- moth-eaten,
- silent,
- jock,
- pitiable,
- stand up,
- distressed,
- gushing,
- evenfall,
- forbidden,
- sustain,
- terminal,
- slake,
- small-scale,
- poker-faced,
- fat,
- unsmooth,
- draw and quarter,
- pass on,
- rimy,
- rush,
- astute,
- shine,
- damaging,
- smash,
- decline in quality,
- issue,
- free,
- nutty,
- keep one's eyes off,
- pall,
- thick-skulled,
- unaffectionate,
- sleek,
- blockade,
- overnice,
- extraneous,
- packed,
- clean,
- replication,
- tike,
- focussing,
- tabu,
- chagrin,
- extension,
- wearisome,
- looney,
- haste,
- maniacal,
- financial support,
- senseless,
- crawfish,
- jumbled,
- lately,
- olympic,
- antedate,
- blazing,
- chase,
- changeling,
- stultify,
- doubtful,
- unit of ammunition,
- neandertal,
- neutral,
- back end,
- deviant,
- questioning,
- quotation,
- imperfect,
- ill-treat,
- standstill,
- edit,
- fore,
- untalkative,
- remain firm,
- philippic,
- make,
- ahead of time,
- infelicitous,
- chivalric,
- taste,
- resist,
- basal,
- uphill,
- table,
- recuperate,
- all right,
- scanty,
- embryonal,
- wacko,
- mizen,
- mad,
- wasted,
- indulgent,
- physiological reaction,
- anatropous,
- cycle,
- insensate,
- nonsensical,
- abstract,
- get out,
- diametrical,
- swerving,
- uncivil,
- sales booth,
- unmindful,
- uprising,
- chill,
- essay,
- bow,
- send on,
- devolution,
- once more,
- naive,
- puff,
- nipping,
- deaf,
- minus,
- underside,
- admirer,
- slothful,
- slice,
- stereotypical,
- disdain,
- nightfall,
- uncaring,
- betray,
- sink,
- climbing,
- living,
- shadower,
- counseling,
- turnabout,
- flash,
- pocket-size,
- minatory,
- lot,
- low temperature,
- bats,
- pull out,
- forbiddance,
- examine,
- space,
- flow,
- depict,
- dawdle,
- sick,
- consume,
- swinish,
- shoot down,
- throwaway,
- overrule,
- come out,
- vacuous,
- divagation,
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- short,
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- reasoning backward,
- tarriance,
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- flair,
- wrong-side-out,
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- gradation,
- aerodynamic,
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- legal injury,
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- unseasonable,
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- end,
- frighten off,
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- gnome,
- unlettered,
- sidewise,
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- all over,
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- note of hand,
- percentage sign,
- prorogue,
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- nigh,
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- uncomplicated,
- chou,
- some,
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- take note,
- nonvoluntary,
- whole tone,
- keep one's hands off,
- unembellished,
- sonant,
- acutely,
- primary,
- reverse gear,
- to the contrary,
- glare,
- power saw,
- underbred,
- probationary,
- neanderthal,
- reliever,
- rotary converter,
- alligatored,
- faulty,
- blocky,
- unvoluntary,
- reformist,
- flush it,
- orotund,
- unornamented,
- mortify,
- provisional,
- pin,
- peg down,
- vanilla extract,
- political relation,
- gaumless,
- bear,
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- cursory,
- broadsheet,
- binding,
- uninspired,
- last,
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- dodge,
- at long last,
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- leave of absence,
- callback,
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- brainsick,
- nippy,
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- point,
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- introduce,
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- jolty,
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- thickly,
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- worsening,
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- needy,
- glide,
- blockage,
- libertine,
- moss-grown,
- going away,
- sponsor,
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- fundamental,
- financial backing,
- betimes,
- sang-froid,
- grim,
- pedestal,
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- net,
- quieten,
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- piteous,
- strangled,
- slump,
- low,
- bread,
- panache,
- broken,
- undersurface,
- proscribed,
- break,
- moron,
- fine-tune,
- yellow,
- by and by,
- unsound,
- bet on,
- mire,
- stupid person,
- frontwards,
- unconditioned,
- stifled,
- shadow,
- equanimous,
- stride,
- underdone,
- retrousse,
- vacillation,
- snappy,
- hit the sack,
- blue,
- up-to-the-minute,
- baseborn,
- blur,
- forget,
- grating,
- round of drinks,
- unattended,
- uneasy,
- change of mind,
- sequestrate,
- pile,
- endorse,
- reminiscence,
- once again,
- seat,
- snipe,
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- trade,
- stair,
- casual,
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- ascent,
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- whacky,
- lapsing,
- halt,
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- mere,
- wispy,
- roughshod,
- point of reference,
- assail,
- rung,
- indrawn,
- response time,
- squarely,
- cultivated cabbage,
- apostasy,
- retrovert,
- whole step,
- passing game,
- verboten,
- uncouth,
- watery,
- shekels,
- tailor,
- lofty,
- understated,
- antonym,
- subnormality,
- round the bend,
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- finish,
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- tyke,
- short letter,
- serenity,
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- power,
- crosshatch,
- uninventive,
- thudding,
- accede,
- provide,
- goosey,
- primeval,
- slackness,
- bottom of the inning,
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- haggard,
- unschooled,
- downslope,
- nurture,
- provisionary,
- frail,
- address,
- under the weather,
- placid,
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- deep,
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- accrue,
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- anchoritic,
- insufficient,
- haulage,
- pass,
- barren,
- attempt,
- thickset,
- arrest,
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- superficial,
- gauche,
- insurrection,
- desolate,
- damage,
- awry,
- slope,
- jockstrap,
- past times,
- puritanical,
- bread and butter,
- common,
- deadpan,
- harum-scarum,
- pacify,
- hugger-mugger,
- poor people,
- rear end,
- here,
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- psychotic person,
- reflexive pronoun,
- accompaniment,
- stall,
- revoke,
- result,
- progressive tense,
- mossy,
- die away,
- pull,
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- fast-flying,
- eviscerate,
- merchant ship,
- parky,
- riposte,
- artless,
- frozen,
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- check,
- swing,
- fierce,
- prodigious,
- unprocurable,
- gaunt,
- weakened,
- vulgar,
- past tense,
- plosive consonant,
- period of time,
- overthrow,
- predate,
- blockheaded,
- assistance,
- bob,
- straightforward,
- reference point,
- countrified,
- soak up,
- kookie,
- layover,
- leave behind,
- low-spirited,
- obstruct,
- economic aid,
- descend,
- in the end,
- measure,
- hook,
- exceeding,
- standpoint,
- go through,
- running game,
- indigent,
- low-keyed,
- round down,
- unexpressive,
- unseemly,
- rosy,
- unfriendly,
- attraction,
- smothered,
- margin,
- abaxial,
- chile,
- scare off,
- butt,
- digression,
- sugar,
- twilight,
- strike,
- occlusive,
- buggy,
- blat,
- fill out,
- solitary,
- put over,
- reverting,
- slip away,
- maltreat,
- developing,
- pull away,
- tight-laced,
- drag one's feet,
- pull in one's horns,
- strain,
- dainty,
- cool down,
- dawdler,
- stake,
- second power,
- unexploited,
- undermentioned,
- take out,
- infirm,
- tranquility,
- rock-ribbed,
- unbiassed,
- slack off,
- degeneracy,
- screwball,
- katabolic,
- condescension,
- line,
- pocket-sized,
- trim back,
- profligate,
- give out,
- anticipate,
- departure,
- musical note,
- unsighted,
- stopped up,
- english,
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- isolated,
- menstruation,
- hick,
- jot,
- promissory note,
- empty,
- gelid,
- goth,
- dusk,
- still,
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- burn,
- devour,
- tabulator,
- respectful,
- gross,
- quiesce,
- get rid of,
- absurd,
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- echo,
- wide-eyed,
- suck up,
- dimmed,
- canonic,
- heel counter,
- scratchy,
- greenback,
- repress,
- down pat,
- tranquilize,
- circumspect,
- stymie,
- acute,
- qualifying,
- blanch,
- tie-up,
- transposition,
- financial aid,
- unsay,
- tumble,
- minute,
- uncivilised,
- fathom,
- poor fish,
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- bout,
- decadency,
- rise up,
- premature,
- reclusive,
- natural,
- embarrassing,
- handbill,
- put up,
- purloin,
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- comeback,
- miscarry,
- sidelong,
- lead,
- tiresome,
- backup man,
- arse,
- pursuit,
- fruity,
- describe,
- veto,
- flat,
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- upset,
- gravelly,
- crepuscule,
- recollection,
- clear sailing,
- escape,
- riotous,
- poke,
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- unmown,
- ill-timed,
- bovid,
- stark,
- unbalanced,
- forego,
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- stocky,
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- rearward,
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- benumb,
- credit,
- thin,
- uninstructed,
- wayward,
- preface,
- fanny,
- drowsing,
- full-length,
- annul,
- diaphragm,
- slide by,
- canonical,
- crepuscle,
- footprint,
- dance step,
- pull in,
- disconfirming,
- abase,
- shuffle,
- go forth,
- weakly,
- conscientious,
- concluding,
- menacing,
- humiliate,
- dispatch,
- repulsive,
- helper,
- unruffled,
- debilitated,
- trim,
- batty,
- go by,
- suck,
- derisory,
- delineate,
- dopy,
- tranquillize,
- adjudicate,
- emerging,
- stupefied,
- meek,
- glide by,
- bleat,
- necessitous,
- render,
- gaga,
- noesis,
- shrink back,
- dissipated,
- switch off,
- final examination,
- elan,
- unreasoning,
- brush aside,
- knock down,
- corroborate,
- aplomb,
- buffet,
- swipe,
- troll,
- hitch,
- shadowy,
- in one case,
- reinforcement,
- perversely,
- onwards,
- billet,
- nude,
- clientele,
- slew,
- terminated,
- staple,
- tip-tilted,
- knightly,
- book of facts,
- neglect,
- keep down,
- attractor,
- white,
- notation,
- sulky,
- mown,
- gruntle,
- incorrect,
- spine,
- perverse,
- forgo,
- forrad,
- mollify,
- ambitionless,
- stand-in,
- heavyset,
- light,
- voiced,
- mild,
- waste,
- sidestep,
- incline,
- orthodontic braces,
- skip,
- strike down,
- lallation,
- compact,
- turnaround,
- jittery,
- give chase,
- down feather,
- tranquil,
- test,
- transitory,
- run,
- ended,
- banknote,
- slithering,
- easy,
- scoot,
- clams,
- downwardly,
- bantam,
- kibosh,
- unaccessible,
- blunt,
- go to sleep,
- erstwhile,
- track,
- go after,
- plentiful,
- passee,
- preposterous,
- utter,
- hold,
- pent-up,
- fertile,
- cumbersome,
- hesitation,
- churl,
- cognition,
- crookback,
- mute,
- lash out,
- mizenmast,
- annotating,
- recluse,
- o'er,
- hatch,
- flabby,
- release,
- madcap,
- scud,
- clumsy,
- floating,
- write out,
- numb,
- assistant,
- stress,
- solid,
- draw play,
- untaught,
- impede,
- calm down,
- splinter,
- piano,
- placidity,
- at once,
- boost,
- nerveless,
- tolerance,
- barmy,
- degage,
- cadaverous,
- straight,
- yesteryear,
- turn,
- slowness,
- surpassing,
- hermitical,
- place upright,
- tie,
- recently,
- sack out,
- hunky-dory,
- archaic,
- simplicity,
- finally,
- complete,
- chilli,
- plosive speech sound,
- black eye,
- allow,
- drop,
- hyphenate,
- let alone,
- one time,
- slurred,
- tag,
- strait-laced,
- unsheathed,
- substandard,
- cruel,
- drag one's heels,
- drowsy,
- loutish,
- repeal,
- barbaric,
- full point,
- flip-flop,
- jumpy,
- circumvent,
- penetrative,
- drop-off,
- narrow down,
- menial,
- brutal,
- fall back,
- plunk for,
- preceding,
- upwards,
- back out,
- fallible,
- black,
- bunglesome,
- hibernating,
- crackers,
- focal point,
- decrepit,
- circle,
- jolting,
- ungainly,
- baseball swing,
- reactionist,
- so-so,
- interrogation point,
- peasant,
- needlelike,
- knock back,
- one hundred one,
- latterly,
- intercept,
- drink down,
- inhuman,
- unbecoming,
- absorb,
- out of doors,
- parting,
- leisurely,
- sideway,
- disorderly,
- geld,
- wiped out,
- murder,
- antipathetic,
- close to,
- abate,
- convulsive,
- farewell,
- effusive,
- sceptical,
- glacial,
- traffic circle,
- bad,
- slashed,
- lag,
- unequal to,
- eremitical,
- untrimmed,
- daunt,
- character,
- move out,
- parallel of latitude,
- confirm,
- copious,
- chili,
- foresee,
- petroleum,
- fundament,
- central,
- majestic,
- tooshie,
- gage,
- unstable,
- catamenia,
- volte-face,
- impairment,
- recessive allele,
- dreamy,
- latent period,
- quit,
- eminence,
- frisky,
- recover,
- self-examining,
- poised,
- square toes,
- hit the hay,
- wantonness,
- in style,
- footstep,
- abeyant,
- tone,
- bottomland,
- arrested development,
- rough-cut,
- point of view,
- feather,
- garter,
- torpid,
- unhinged,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- brace,
- wampum,
- steering,
- knocked out,
- shorten,
- degraded,
- rump,
- catch,
- underpin,
- extroverted,
- arctic,
- air,
- kill,
- mistreat,
- tedious,
- abhorrent,
- cut off,
- draw back,
- booster,
- sneak,
- will,
- blow,
- backmost,
- block up,
- purblind,
- replicate,
- inborn reflex,
- niggardly,
- shamble,
- marginal,
- stay away,
- shrewd,
- silence,
- swashbuckler,
- lenient,
- downwards,
- languorous,
- vagabond,
- goosy,
- rasping,
- doldrums,
- faineant,
- moderate,
- inept,
- calm,
- sinful,
- babble,
- lame,
- round-eyed,
- abuse,
- take away,
- spill,
- hundred and one,
- speechless,
- anserine,
- boondocks,
- liquid,
- sailplaning,
- viewpoint,
- specialise,
- painstaking,
- minacious,
- sterile,
- straight-laced,
- daredevil,
- retard,
- buns,
- upwardly,
- get,
- ex,
- unobtainable,
- mention,
- ban,
- tread,
- external,
- prohibited,
- decelerate,
- backside,
- polish up,
- cut of meat,
- contain,
- publicize,
- pallid,
- plump for,
- guide,
- one shot,
- counterpunch,
- countryfied,
- rescind,
- keep,
- revolt,
- plugged,
- hothead,
- lacuna,
- leaden,
- refine,
- moolah,
- take in,
- wretched,
- sequester,
- fearful,
- keister,
- attention,
- ignored,
- silver-tongued,
- immaterial,
- tweedy,
- prim,
- rationalize,
- separated,
- reenforcement,
- backslide,
- autumn,
- help,
- elapse,
- approximately,
- proverb,
- most,
- pace,
- falling off,
- tail end,
- attract,
- too soon,
- fixation,
- flaccid,
- duck,
- invaginate,
- constrict,
- forswear,
- whip,
- psychotic,
- pinch,
- invalidate,
- uptight,
- deteriorate,
- conk out,
- thither,
- computer address,
- infantile,
- take,
- parent,
- indorse,
- fell,
- narrow-minded,
- board,
- labialize,
- backbone,
- statistical regression,
- astir,
- commission,
- assuage,
- let up,
- ill-mannered,
- livelihood,
- other,
- diffused,
- precipitate,
- care,
- pudding head,
- bad-mannered,
- depressing,
- incompetent person,
- unenviable,
- pear-shaped,
- erect,
- premise,
- ephemeral,
- take up,
- reflex action,
- antecede,
- out of reach,
- pitiful,
- hear,
- backrest,
- prematurely,
- hind end,
- satisfying,
- at a time,
- hold up,
- frighten away,
- lowbrowed,
- vertebral column,
- opposition,
- cease,
- instruction,
- bill,
- polish off,
- way,
- chasteness,
- extreme right-winger,
- uninvolved,
- forgetful,
- improving,
- unaccented,
- drawing card,
- synchronous converter,
- pinched,
- scrawny,
- sinking feeling,
- unheeded,
- cut back,
- endure,
- low-key,
- simpleness,
- recent,
- barricade,
- tending,
- venerating,
- wan,
- followers,
- exacting,
- loot,
- sprint,
- backward and forward,
- take down,
- rickety,
- leave-taking,
- lift,
- hooking,
- remote control,
- cover,
- inadequate,
- government note,
- cutting off,
- come,
- fatheaded,
- nervy,
- agrestic,
- full-bodied,
- formerly,
- bounderish,
- hash over,
- tail assembly,
- put off,
- blushing,
- pour down,
- antecedently,
- absent,
- rise,
- outback,
- rebellion,
- international,
- unknowledgeable,
- cunctation,
- economic assistance,
- sheeplike,
- inexperient,
- hurry,
- upstage,
- back up,
- reap,
- overstrung,
- equivocation,
- die,
- ample,
- disturbed,
- lowbrow,
- distinction,
- stomach,
- piercing,
- stopover,
- passing play,
- washy,
- suspensor,
- unwell,
- delicate,
- wintry,
- rachis,
- pull back,
- vacillating,
- bar,
- thread,
- axile,
- infantile fixation,
- stinger,
- roundabout,
- acknowledgment,
- fossil oil,
- contract,
- substantial,
- break off,
- control,
- overtaking,
- try out,
- blaze away,
- run out,
- forrard,
- stern,
- out-of-door,
- indecorous,
- idiot,
- parry,
- wacky,
- raw,
- chicken,
- publicise,
- dorsum,
- bring down,
- over-the-top,
- book binding,
- virtually,
- roughened,
- slue,
- chickenhearted,
- friend.
Paraphrases for Backward:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
backwards, regressive, retrograde, rearward, retarded.
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Noun, singular or mass
retrograde, rearward.
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Verb, past tense
rearward.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
lagging, overdue, under-developed, outdated, undeveloped, back, out-dated, aft, delayed, less-favoured, reactionary, obsolete.
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Proper noun, singular
back.
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Noun, plural
backlogs.
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Noun, singular or mass
back.
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Interjection
back.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
backwardness, underdeveloped, backward-looking, retrogressive, underprivileged.
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Noun, singular or mass
backwardness.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Backward:
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adj.
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all
forward.
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slow in growth
developed.
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toward the rear
developing, fast, precocious, intelligent, unshy, aggressive, smart.
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Other antonyms:
dashing, convivial, clubbable, gregarious, bold, uninhibited, favorable, inclined, extroverted, disposed, boon, social, dynamic, willing, dynamical, nervy, immodest, outgoing, sociable, unreserved, companionable, desirous, eager, forceful.
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all
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adv.
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all
ahead.
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all