Synonyms for Backwards:

• adj.

  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • upside down.
  •upside down (adjective)
  • without order,
  • wrong side out,
  • bottom up,
  • Orderless.

• a. & adv.

  •topsy-turvy (adjective, adverb)
  • topsyturvy.

• adv.

  •back (adverb)
  • toward the rear,
  • in reverse.
  •topsy-turvy (adverb)
  • more inside-out,
  • most insideout,
  • more insideout,
  • insideout,
  • up-ended,
  • topsy turvy,
  • up ended,
  • most upended,
  • more upended,
  • most backwards,
  • more inside out,
  • more backwards.
  •vice versa (adverb)
  • turn about.

• adv

  •Other relevant words: (adverb)
  • inside out,
  • Everted,
  • turned around,
  • topsy-turvy,
  • vice versa.
  •topsy-turvy (adverb)
  • upended.
  •vice versa (adverb)
  • on the contrary,
  • Contra,
  • contrariwise,
  • far from it,
  • oppositely,
  • other way around,
  • the other way around,
  • the opposite way.

• n.

  •
  • around,
  • precede,
  • about.
  •
  • round,
  • approach.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • backward,
  • rearward,
  • back,
  • back to front,
  • Backwardly,
  • rearwards.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • inside-out.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    retrograde, backward.
  • Proper noun, singular
    backward.
  • Noun, plural
    backward.
  • Adverb
    backward.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    regressive, reversed, rearward.
  • Proper noun, singular
    rearward.
  • Noun, plural
    rearwards.
  • Adverb
    ago, behind, conversely, upside, retrospectively, astern, rearward, forth.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    differing.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    upside-down.

Antonyms for Backwards:

• adv.

  • Other antonyms:
    frontwards, forward, frontward, forrad, forrard.

Homophones for Backwards:

• beggar-ticks, begrudge, beaux arts.