backward

backward
adv
1. rearward, towards the back, in reverse, vice versa, upside down, topsyturvy, inside out, back in front; crablike, retrocessive-ly, retrogressively, regressively, Scot, and North. Eng. backlins; Naut. aback, Naut. abaft, Naut. aft, Naut. astern, Naut. sternward.
2. thoroughly wrong, totally confused, Sl. arsy-varsy, Sl. assbackwards, Sl. bassackwards.
3. backward and forward
Informal. a. thoroughly, completely, perfectly, inside out, from A to Z.b. to and fro, back and forth, in and out.c.(of persons) wavering, vacillating, indecisive, undecided.
adj
4. reversed, reverse, opposite, vice versa, topsy-turvy, upside-down, inside-out, inverse, mirror, counter-clockwise, Brit. anticlockwise; returning, recessive, receding, ebbing, refluent, retrocessive, retrograde, regressive, retrogressive, reversionary, counterproductive; retrospective.
5. lapsing, relapsing, recidivistic, recidivous, atavistic.
6. slow, laggard, tardy, late, behindhand, remiss, slack; undeveloped, underdeveloped, unprogressive, unsophisticated, rustic, backwoods, Inf. rinky-dink; inapt, inept, foolish, silly, fatuous, moronic, imbecile, idiotic, stupid, asinine, Sl. arsy-varsy, senseless, irrational; slow-witted, dull, simple, feeble-minded, witless, doltish, Boeotian, uncultured, unintelligent, Sl. soft, Rare. insulse.
7. bashful, shy, coy, demure, shrinking, retiring, timid, hesitant; disinclined, Scot. loathful, loath, averse, reluctant, chary, wavering; unconsenting, unwilling, opposed, antipathetical, protesting, balky, restive, uncomplying, noncompliant; perverse, refractory, unruly, unamenable, unyielding, recalcitrant, obdurate, stubborn, wayward, mulish, pigheaded, reni-tent, pervicacious, contumacious.

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