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Backward

//ˈbæk.wə(ɹ)d//

Synonyms for "backward" (381 found)

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Informal (44)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(4 words)

back rough slack blind

Adj, adv, name, noun, prep, verb, slang(2 words)

round running

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(6 words)

cool tail shy blank dim hinder

Adj, adv, noun, slang(4 words)

cold stupid crazy late

Adj, noun, verb, slang(3 words)

simple lazy lagging

Adj, adv, intj, name, noun, prep, verb, slang(1 words)

over

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

slow dumb

Adj, slang(6 words)

rude frigid moronic half-baked offish thickheaded

Adj, name, noun, slang(1 words)

lax

Adj, name, noun, prep, verb, slang(1 words)

rising

Adj, adv, noun, prep, slang(1 words)

behind

Adj, verb, slang(4 words)

cracked retarded blocked hung up

Adj, adv, prep, slang(1 words)

around

Adj, adv, name, noun, slang(2 words)

early aft

Adj, noun, slang(2 words)

ignorant mongoloid

Adj, name, slang(1 words)

icy

Adj, adv, slang(2 words)

ass-backwards latish

Adv, noun, prep, slang(1 words)

fro

General use (337)

Adverb(4 words)

back rearward backwards rearwards

Adj, name, verb(1 words)

dull

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb(1 words)

counter

Adj, name, noun, verb(5 words)

poor going tardy rushing coy

Adj, noun, verb(23 words)

narrow remote mounting shuffling reflex soaring flowing flying forbidding roughcast opaque plunging streaming shrinking ascending drifting retiring descending standoff babbling

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balking grudging blithering

Adj, intj, noun, verb(1 words)

quiet

Adj, adv, noun, verb(5 words)

reverse rear passing retrograde topsy-turvy

Adj, adv, prep, verb(1 words)

about

Adj, adv, noun(4 words)

indifferent defective rearward rearwards

Adjective(110 words)

coarse primitive modest past sluggish apathetic easygoing barbarous impassive distant uncultivated restive undeveloped unpolished obsolete embryonic reluctant unready perfunctory dated

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bashful afraid discreet lackadaisical unfinished uncongenial bigoted hidebound uncultured timid hesitant unapproachable idiotic uncut indisposed remiss standpat regressive reticent dilatory unformed unlicked standoffish childish overdue renitent diffident half baked unenlightened unwilling expressionless rudimental roughhewn reductive ungenial uninformed undemonstrative simpleminded unlabored unenthusiastic simplistic crackbrained untreated ass backwards self-effacing balky refluent unprocessed old-line gyrational procrastinative unpunctual unexpansive mentally retarded retroactive rotatory unassertive hindmost unaffable dim-witted imbecilic slow-witted fogyish unblown right-wing unworked unhewn half-witted feebleminded procrastinatory uneager unassured oversimple reductionistic cretinous rearmost chiastic moratory in reverse Micawberish hindermost cretinistic mentally handicapped simpletonian retral unzealous hyperbatic retrad back to front reversedly

Adj, noun(31 words)

crude conservative progressive olympian reactionary imbecile chilly fluent barbarian posterior rudimentary rotary laggard old-fashioned impersonal inaccessible postern retrogressive axial subnormal

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right wing ultraconservative medieval retrospective rotational preservative gyratory unprogressive die-hard palindromic nonprogressive

Adj, verb(35 words)

detached subdued feeble unrefined restrained withdrawn obtuse jammed guarded reserved removed arrested stopped checked demure stunted introverted repressed constrained benighted

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underdeveloped averse loath inverted disinclined chilled belated reversed obstructed delayed detained resupinate unfashioned unwrought retroverted

Adj, adv, conj, noun, prep(1 words)

after

Adj, adv, intj, verb(1 words)

away

Noun, verb(13 words)

sinking lingering loitering dallying maundering reflowing struggling delaying burbling drooling dithering slobbering driveling

Adj, adv, prep(1 words)

aloof

Adv, prep(1 words)

again

Adj, name(1 words)

frosty

Adj, adv(18 words)

untimely downward head over heels chary behindhand counterclockwise inside out a priori astern sideward anticlockwise heels over head upside-down ex post facto aftermost hindward back when tailward

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a reculons bottom side up bottom up wrong-way wrong-way around after time deep into far on to the rear

Verb(15 words)

set back suppressed procrastinating die hard turned around transposed gone by dillydallying everted held up capsized impeded slowed down inversed invaginated

Adj, adv, name, noun(1 words)

upward

Adj, name, noun(1 words)

hind

Adj, adv, name(1 words)

upside down

Noun(1 words)

foot-dragging

Adv, conj, prep(1 words)

since

Prep_phrase(8 words)

against the grain in embryo in abeyance in a bind behind time in the rough in reverse behind the times

Adj, name, postp(1 words)

ago

Adj, adv, verb(1 words)

backwards

Adverb(16 words)

vice versa widdershins contrariwise inversely conversely contrarily belatedly wrong side out retroactively retrospectively outside in hindwards posteriorly reminiscently none too soon tailwards

Adv, prep_phrase(1 words)

round about

Adjective(3 words)

slow-witted half-witted feebleminded

Adv, verb(1 words)

arear

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