What is another word for backwards?
885 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ bˈakwədz], [ bˈakwədz], [ b_ˈa_k_w_ə_d_z]Table of Contents
Similar words for backwards:- other relevant words (adjective)
- upside down (adjective)
- topsy-turvy (adjective, adverb)
- back (adverb)
- topsy-turvy (adverb)
- vice versa (adverb)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- topsy-turvy (adverb)
- vice versa (adverb)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Backwards:
adj.
•Other relevant words: (adjective) •upside down (adjective)a. & adv.
•topsy-turvy (adjective, adverb)adv.
•back (adverb) •topsy-turvy (adverb) •vice versa (adverb)adv
•Other relevant words: (adverb) •topsy-turvy (adverb) •vice versa (adverb)n.
•Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
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- inside-out.
- by,
- bully,
- unrepentant,
- come back,
- feebleminded,
- half-witted,
- yob,
- fossil oil,
- maverick,
- gage,
- rhythm,
- firm,
- simple regression,
- incline,
- bring up,
- corruption,
- necessitous,
- virtually,
- standstill,
- footfall,
- cumbersome,
- broken,
- revert,
- heavily,
- over again,
- reject,
- match,
- assault,
- off,
- wane,
- perverse,
- descent,
- astir,
- move back,
- brushup,
- approach path,
- rump,
- yobbo,
- voiceless,
- refresh,
- round off,
- buttocks,
- play off,
- fight,
- inept,
- stone's throw,
- freedom fighter,
- diminution,
- cover,
- grass,
- embarrassing,
- preceding,
- sales booth,
- rise up,
- digest,
- slip by,
- impede,
- limited review,
- reexamination,
- ill-chosen,
- hindquarters,
- draw close,
- slope,
- contradict,
- volte-face,
- punishing,
- incompetent,
- high-risk,
- disadvantageous,
- indigent,
- gruelling,
- broadsheet,
- punk,
- just about,
- stalwart,
- inflexible,
- poverty-stricken,
- recap,
- austere,
- fend,
- seat,
- recollection,
- nitwitted,
- pace,
- greet,
- ill-timed,
- topsy-turvily,
- ill at ease,
- retire,
- blow,
- decay,
- rock oil,
- call in,
- totter,
- power saw,
- overrule,
- pokey,
- viewpoint,
- stall,
- nates,
- round of drinks,
- rachis,
- echo,
- antecede,
- proverb,
- outdoor stage,
- black eye,
- terminated,
- invert,
- tone,
- can,
- cheat,
- counterbalance,
- reflexly,
- declivity,
- back up,
- call,
- access,
- remain firm,
- spine,
- retrogressive,
- unsound,
- mobilize,
- amiss,
- review article,
- uncompromising,
- ex post facto,
- english,
- retiring,
- labialise,
- reasoning backward,
- interior,
- improving,
- deep down,
- keep one's eyes off,
- accredit,
- raw,
- whole tone,
- inauspicious,
- unfit,
- punt,
- introduce,
- incorrectly,
- roughly,
- revue,
- bout,
- stark,
- bring forward,
- book binding,
- inviolable,
- tell on,
- slump,
- reverse gear,
- regretful,
- divagation,
- wrong-side-out,
- countermand,
- reciprocally,
- hooligan,
- keep one's distance,
- strenuous,
- turn back,
- forth,
- unrefined,
- one shot,
- tie-up,
- overthrow,
- dance step,
- position,
- gawky,
- preface,
- flyer,
- beat,
- unregenerate,
- turnaround,
- deceive,
- stern,
- bottom,
- turn around,
- badness,
- philippic,
- second,
- sell,
- knotty,
- discern,
- survey,
- correct,
- inwardly,
- summon,
- plump for,
- set about,
- about-face,
- pick out,
- firmly,
- blocky,
- policy change,
- decadency,
- grave,
- retrograde,
- serious,
- solid,
- near,
- construct,
- upside-down,
- portly,
- forgetful,
- hind end,
- uncollectible,
- retrieve,
- inner,
- hind,
- overturn,
- stand up,
- attack,
- polish,
- premise,
- setback,
- recur,
- shit,
- excursus,
- speculative,
- forged,
- perversely,
- insurrectionist,
- backrest,
- ill-use,
- depravity,
- cycle,
- backwards,
- insurgent,
- glide by,
- defend,
- recognise,
- outward,
- surd,
- unprocessed,
- stubborn,
- go down,
- roughneck,
- hoodlum,
- standpoint,
- footmark,
- bear,
- unit of ammunition,
- unmanageable,
- resort,
- earthy,
- backbreaking,
- backward and forward,
- mistreat,
- tush,
- ring,
- dorsum,
- distinguish,
- contraclockwise,
- annul,
- give away,
- critical review,
- glide slope,
- impregnable,
- bewray,
- parenthesis,
- worsened,
- laggard,
- critique,
- flip-flop,
- change of mind,
- indoors,
- straining,
- far-right,
- unvoiced,
- rescind,
- rally,
- past tense,
- lead,
- wicked,
- rung,
- privileged,
- haywire,
- indorse,
- wayward,
- close to,
- sink,
- retral,
- tread,
- set up,
- precedency,
- strong-armer,
- followup,
- in great confusion,
- denounce,
- defective,
- turnabout,
- untoward,
- toughie,
- stave,
- incorrect,
- back end,
- slow-witted,
- fumbling,
- petroleum,
- phone,
- anatropous,
- get worse,
- turn down,
- unseasonable,
- handicap,
- worsen,
- yobo,
- slip away,
- game,
- anastrophe,
- almost,
- go about,
- keep one's hands off,
- needy,
- spartan,
- pull back,
- goon,
- stymy,
- border on,
- obdurate,
- tirade,
- devolvement,
- oversight,
- here,
- stomach,
- unenviable,
- react,
- toughened,
- out,
- clunky,
- antecedency,
- soft-witted,
- unassailable,
- dangerous,
- remember,
- coming,
- reasonless,
- tail,
- stride,
- backsliding,
- brook,
- draw back,
- hugger-mugger,
- predate,
- elusive,
- or so,
- return,
- at heart,
- jumbled,
- recapitulation,
- reexamine,
- once again,
- hark back,
- potent,
- relapsing,
- erect,
- upwardly,
- put up,
- round of golf,
- awry,
- inspection,
- change by reversal,
- greyback,
- obstruct,
- repeal,
- furrowed,
- hardy,
- pit,
- shitless,
- secure,
- outside,
- bungling,
- some,
- retreat,
- obsession,
- refuse,
- cautious,
- badly,
- sideway,
- prat,
- oil,
- backslide,
- ill-treat,
- backbone,
- tell apart,
- all over,
- in spite of appearance,
- lead astray,
- fight back,
- know,
- glide path,
- circular,
- apart,
- trace,
- go up,
- intemperately,
- crank,
- blunt,
- circle,
- life-threatening,
- renegade,
- pass up,
- grueling,
- buns,
- damage,
- bill,
- substandard,
- wander,
- brush up,
- obliquely,
- revaluation,
- downslope,
- behindhand,
- declination,
- crude oil,
- zag,
- lag,
- teeter,
- binding,
- reverting,
- precession,
- primitive,
- stick out,
- reconstruct,
- break,
- stair,
- advanced,
- tilting board,
- violate,
- arise,
- butt,
- sorry,
- gross,
- substantial,
- past times,
- rowdy,
- hardly,
- daily round,
- rotund,
- bandstand,
- rack,
- fight down,
- deficient,
- lift,
- blockade,
- bet on,
- infantile fixation,
- ruffianly,
- inapt,
- atavistic,
- offend,
- block,
- extreme right-winger,
- endorse,
- reb,
- unattackable,
- terrible,
- handbill,
- antecedently,
- declension,
- snitch,
- conservativist,
- hash over,
- footprint,
- measure,
- approaching,
- turn,
- ruffian,
- tooshie,
- cheat on,
- subscript,
- fall behind,
- acknowledge,
- come on,
- snipe,
- sticky,
- controvert,
- improper,
- look backward,
- spoilt,
- realise,
- stiff,
- flesh out,
- go along,
- verso,
- abide,
- sexual inversion,
- button-down,
- zig,
- throwaway,
- rough,
- face,
- problematic,
- pull away,
- vacate,
- nearly,
- forego,
- teeter-totter,
- derriere,
- rude,
- bunglesome,
- thug,
- retroactive,
- override,
- make out,
- call back,
- in arrears,
- at bottom,
- labialize,
- bum,
- reversion,
- upward,
- ended,
- fundament,
- thither,
- big,
- go by,
- fanny,
- assail,
- dandle board,
- come near,
- problematical,
- side of meat,
- risky,
- base,
- lapsing,
- pear-shaped,
- bourgeois,
- spot,
- putrefaction,
- point of view,
- stymie,
- buttoned-down,
- reassessment,
- atavist,
- fixing,
- nigh,
- approximately,
- support,
- overture,
- hood,
- baffling,
- reappraisal,
- pass,
- tolerate,
- round out,
- pedestal,
- realize,
- uneasy,
- round down,
- teetertotter,
- faulty,
- whole step,
- keister,
- vertebral column,
- heels over head,
- slide by,
- callback,
- endure,
- advance,
- reactionist,
- orotund,
- mobilise,
- spoiled,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- troll,
- fall,
- cussed,
- abuse,
- disorderly,
- slow,
- to the contrary,
- most,
- anteriority,
- wrongly,
- think,
- vulgar,
- materialistic,
- opposite,
- revoke,
- fail,
- unwieldy,
- within,
- elapse,
- plunk for,
- warm,
- street fighter,
- adage,
- sidewise,
- back and forth,
- back tooth,
- dawdle,
- priority,
- self-examining,
- regression toward the mean,
- well-nigh,
- retrovert,
- hamper,
- raise,
- arrested development,
- resist,
- concluded,
- rear end,
- telephone,
- retrospect,
- unmindful,
- poky,
- antedate,
- retroflexion,
- digression,
- cuckold,
- rat,
- discourse,
- lash out,
- backside,
- feeler,
- tail end,
- infract,
- ungainly,
- ultraconservative,
- parent,
- stake,
- stag,
- flier,
- nurture,
- heavy,
- come before,
- senseless,
- agnize,
- footstep,
- reminiscence,
- recidivate,
- transgress,
- fill out,
- zig-zag,
- unfavourable,
- knockout,
- plan of attack,
- draw near,
- more or less,
- destitute,
- upending,
- statistical regression,
- go over,
- arse,
- wrongfulness,
- breach,
- severely,
- approach shot,
- vacuous,
- maltreat,
- embarrass,
- stay away,
- o'er,
- spinal column,
- introspective,
- polish up,
- follow-up,
- sidelong,
- shop,
- wiped out,
- drop off,
- sawing machine,
- upwards,
- late,
- concentrated,
- byword,
- suffer,
- yesteryear,
- gradation,
- agone,
- transposition,
- legal injury,
- place upright,
- forgo,
- buck,
- rise,
- ulterior,
- retroflection,
- ass,
- complete,
- ahead,
- withdraw,
- later,
- untimely,
- teeterboard,
- agnise,
- decadence,
- toilsome,
- rehash,
- intemperate,
- grievous,
- once more,
- everting.
- lapse,
- inside,
- go against,
- betray,
- counterclockwise,
- in reply,
- hinders,
- reflexively,
- eversion,
- crude,
- bethink oneself,
- recall,
- over,
- Regressively,
- in answer,
- sturdy,
- retrogress,
- pasts,
- Slows,
- inverse,
- Faints,
- in and out,
- introverted,
- behind,
- disobey,
- laborious,
- review,
- mindless,
- reversed,
- retrogrades,
- rugged,
- widdershins,
- awkward,
- withershins,
- against the grain,
- fixation,
- Backwardation,
- stout,
- coys,
- anticlockwise,
- conversely,
- abaft,
- difficult,
- degeneracy,
- rears,
- inversion,
- tardy,
- think back,
- regress,
- Arear,
- tough,
- aback,
- recollect,
- recognize,
- call up,
- belated,
- Backset,
- Arrear,
- recoils,
- wrong side up,
- shies,
- wrongs,
- Fro,
- slacks,
- regression,
- be behind,
- rebel,
- astern,
- unfavorable,
- transposed,
- reversal,
- severe,
- dilatory,
- head over heels,
- converses,
- arduous,
- again,
- away,
- mutatis mutandis,
- dulls,
- ass-backwards,
- adverse,
- bad,
- reverse,
- by turns,
- look back,
- Lates,
- crass,
- counter-clockwise,
- countermarch,
- retroversion,
- bring to mind,
- antithesis,
- rebours,
- precedence,
- regressive,
- Retrogressively,
- fall back,
- throwback,
- degeneration,
- Retrogradation,
- aft,
- contrarily,
- call upon,
- blockish,
- hard,
- and fro,
- clumsy,
- converse,
- zigzag,
- rear,
- relapse,
- arsy-varsy,
- conservative,
- atavism,
- inversely,
- seesaw,
- Backs,
- antecedence,
- posterior,
- beforehand,
- witless,
- look back upon,
- recede,
- negatives,
- hinder,
- reactionary,
- reverses,
- simples,
- retrogression,
- strong,
- in exchange,
- devolution,
- retrace,
- inconvenient,
- inverted,
- obstinate,
- oppose,
- decline,
- in advance,
- lags,
- contrary.
Paraphrases for Backwards:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
retrograde, backward.
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Proper noun, singular
backward.
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Noun, plural
backward.
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Adverb
backward.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
regressive, reversed, rearward.
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Proper noun, singular
rearward.
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Noun, plural
rearwards.
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Adverb
ago, behind, conversely, upside, retrospectively, astern, rearward, forth.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
differing.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
upside-down.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Backwards:
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adv.
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Other antonyms:
frontwards, forward, frontward, forrad, forrard.
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Other antonyms: