backwards Antonyms
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Meaning of backwards
backwards (r)
at or to or toward the back or rear
in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
backwards (adv.)
With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
On the back, or with the back downward.
Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
By way of reflection; reflexively.
From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.
backwards Sentence Examples
- No danger, I stressed backward.
- The EMT swiftly reversed the bed.
- Do not trade places backward.
- Was it I who sowed the drawer?
- Her cries echoed desolately backward.
- The clock ticked relentlessly backward.
- Did you ever intend to sleep drawkcab?
- Crime led him down a treacherous path backward.
- The cat's tail swayed nimbly backward.
- The ship set sail, its sails billowing backward in the wind.
FAQs About the word backwards
at or to or toward the back or rear, in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normalWith the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward., Toward
back, rearwards, rearward,, withershins, left-handed, anticlockwise, sternforemost, widdershins, reversely
on, along, forth, ahead, forth,forward, on, forward, ahead, along
No danger, I stressed backward.
The EMT swiftly reversed the bed.
Do not trade places backward.
Was it I who sowed the drawer?
