Synonyms of the word

backward

• adj. (of motion) Pertaining to the direction towards the back.
• adj. (of motion) Pertaining to the direction reverse of normal.
• adj. Reluctant or unable to advance.
• adj. Of a culture considered undeveloped or unsophisticated.
• adj. Pertaining to a thought or value that is considered outdated.
• adj. (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
• adj. (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
• adj. (obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
• adj. Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
• adj. Late or behindhand.
• adj. (obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.
• adv. (of motion) In the direction towards the back; backwards.
• adv. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
• adv. By way of reflection; reflexively.
• adv. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
• n. The state behind or past.

back

• adj. (not comparable) Near the rear.
• adj. (not comparable) Not current.
• adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area.
• adj. In arrear; overdue.
• adj. Moving or operating backward.
• adj. (comparable, phonetics) Produced in the back of the mouth.
• adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
• adv. Away from the front or from an edge.
• adv. In a manner that impedes.
• adv. In a reciprocal manner.
• n. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest…
• n. That which is farthest away from the front.
• n. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
• n. A support or resource in reserve.
• n. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
• n. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
• n. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
• n. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
• v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
• v. (transitive) To support.
• v. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise…
• v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to…
• v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
• v. (Britain, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
• v. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
• v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
• v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
• v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
• v. (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend…
• v. To row backward with (oars).
• n. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers,…
• n. A ferryboat.

backswept

• adj. Swept back.

backwards

• adj. Oriented toward the back.
• adj. Reversed.
• adj. (derogatory) Behind current trends or technology.
• adj. Clumsy, inept, or inefficient.
• adv. Toward the back.
• adv. In the opposite direction to usual.
• adv. In a manner such that the back precedes the front.

bashful

• adj. Shy; not liking to be noticed; socially timid.
• adj. Indicating bashfulness.

blate

• adj. (Scotland, Northern England) Bashful, sheepish.
• adj. (Scotland, Northern England) Dull, stupid.
• v. Archaic form of bleat.

cacuminal

• adj. Pertaining to a point, top, or crown.
• adj. (linguistics, phonology) Pronounced using a retroflexed tongue.
• n. (linguistics, phonology) A sound pronounced using a retroflexed tongue.

converse

• v. (formal, intransitive) To talk; to engage in conversation.
• v. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with.
• v. (obsolete) To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study.
• n. (now literary) Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
• adj. Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
• n. The opposite or reverse.
• n. (logic) Of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B…
• n. (semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse…

feebleminded

• adj. Alternative spelling of feeble-minded.

inverse

• adj. Opposite in effect, nature or order.
• adj. Reverse, opposite in order.
• adj. (botany) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
• adj. (mathematics) Having the properties of an inverse; said with reference to any two operations, which, when…
• adj. (geometry) That has the property of being an inverse (the result of a circle inversion of a given point…
• adj. (category theory, of a category) Whose every element has an inverse (morphism which is both a left inverse…
• n. An inverted state: a state in which something has been turned (properly) upside down or (loosely) inside…
• n. The result of an inversion, particularly.
• n. (mathematics) A second element which negates a first; in a binary operation, the element for which the…
• n. (category theory) A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.
• n. (card games) The winning of the coup in a game of rouge et noir by a card of a color different from that…
• n. (linguistics, Kiowa-Tanoan) A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number…
• v. (surveying) To compute the bearing and distance between two points.

rearward

• n. The part that comes last or is situated in the rear; conclusion; wind-up.
• n. The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard.
• adj. Toward the back or rear of something.
• adv. Toward the back or rear of something.

rearwards

• adj. Rearward.
• adv. Rearward.

receding

• v. present participle of recede.
• n. The action of something that recedes; a recessed part.

reflexive

• adj. (grammar) Referring back to the subject, or having an object equal to the subject.
• adj. (set theory) Of a relation R on a set S, such that xRx for all members x of S (that is, the relation holds…
• adj. Of or resulting from a reflex.
• adj. (figuratively) Producing immediate response, spontaneous.
• adj. Synonym of reflective.
• n. A reflexive pronoun.
• n. A reflexive verb.

regardant

• adj. (heraldry, of an animal): with the head turned toward the back of the body.
• adj. Watchful, attentive; contemplative.

regressive

• adj. That tends to return, revert or regress.
• adj. (of a tax) Whose rate decreases as the amount increases.

retarded

• adj. Delayed; delayed in development, hindered; impeded.
• adj. (psychology, now offensive, dated) Having mental retardation; mentally deficient or underdeveloped.
• adj. (psychology, now offensive, dated) Specifically, having an IQ below 70.
• adj. (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Stupid, dumb.
• adj. (physics) Designating a parameter of an electromagnetic field which is adjusted to account for the finite…
• v. simple past tense and past participle of retard.

retracted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of retract.
• adj. withdrawn back and in, as the claws of a cat.
• adj. (linguistics) (of a sound) pronounced further back in the vocal tract.

retroflex

• adj. Bent or curved backwards.
• adj. (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue is raised and bent backwards, so that the…
• adj. (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar…
• adj. (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the blade of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar…
• adj. (phonetics, general sense) Of any of the aforementioned pronunciations.
• n. (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the underside of the tongue approaching or touching the palate.
• n. (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the tip of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the…
• n. (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the blade of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the…
• n. (phonetics, general sense) Any of the aforementioned consonants.

retroflexed

• adj. Bent in a posterior (backwards) direction, as the uterus.

retrograde

• adj. Directed backwards, retreating; reverting especially inferior state, declining; inverse, reverse; movement…
• adj. Counterproductive to a desired outcome.
• adj. (astronomy, of a body orbiting another) In the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
• adj. (geology) Describing a metamorphic change resulting from a decreasing pressure or temperature.
• n. A degenerate person.
• n. (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last and…
• v. (intransitive) To move backwards; to recede; to retire; to decline; to revert.
• v. (intransitive, astronomy) To show retrogradation.

retrospective

• adj. of, relating to, or contemplating the past.
• adj. looking backwards.
• adj. affecting or influencing past things; retroactive.
• n. an exhibition of works from an extended period of an artist's activity.

returning

• v. present participle of return.
• n. The act of one who returns; a coming back.

reverse

• adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
• adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
• adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
• adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
• adj. (botany) Reversed.
• adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
• adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
• n. The opposite of something.
• n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
• n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
• n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
• n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
• n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
• n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
• n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
• v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
• v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
• v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
• v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
• v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
• v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
• v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
• v. To overthrow; to subvert.

reversed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of reverse.

reversive

• adj. (linguistics) Designating the reversion of an action.

sweptback

• adj. (of an aircraft wing) angled backwards from its attachment to the fuselage.
• adj. (of a hairstyle) backswept.

timid

• adj. Lacking in courage or confidence.

transposed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of transpose.