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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Backward \Back"ward\, n. The state behind or past. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] In the dark backward and abysm of time. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Backward \Back"ward\, v. t. To keep back; to hinder. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Backward \Back"ward\, Backwards \Back"wards\, adv. [Back, adv. + -ward.] 1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. [1913 Webster] 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. [1913 Webster] 3. On the back, or with the back downward. [1913 Webster] Thou wilt fall backward. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago. [1913 Webster] Some reigns backward. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 5. By way of reflection; reflexively. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster] 6. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. [1913 Webster] The work went backward. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 7. In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards. [1913 Webster] We might have . . . beat them backward home. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Backward \Back"ward\, a. 1. Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances. [1913 Webster] 2. Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. [1913 Webster] For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 3. Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child. "The backward learner." --South. [1913 Webster] 4. Late or behindhand; as, a backward season. [1913 Webster] 5. Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state. [1913 Webster] 6. Already past or gone; bygone. [R.] [1913 Webster] And flies unconscious o'er each backward year. --Byron. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: backward adv 1: at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car" [syn: {back}, {backward}, {backwards}, {rearward}, {rearwards}] [ant: {forrad}, {forrard}, {forward}, {forwards}, {frontward}, {frontwards}] 2: in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal; "it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'"; "the child put her jersey on backward" [syn: {backward}, {backwards}] 3: in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward" [syn: {back}, {backward}] [ant: {ahead}, {forward}] adj 1: directed or facing toward the back or rear; "a backward view" [ant: {forward}] 2: (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature; "a backward lover" [ant: {forward}] 3: retarded in intellectual development [syn: {backward}, {half- witted}, {slow-witted}, {feebleminded}] 4: having made less than normal progress; "an economically backward country"