backward
[adjective]
Synonyms: slow, behind, dull, retarded, subnormal, underdeveloped, undeveloped

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Antonyms: advance, forward, advanced
Contrasted words: advanced, aware, enlightened, forward-looking, progressive, unbenighted, civilized, cultivated, cultured, modern
Related Idioms: behind the times
Related Words: inverted, reversed, bashful, diffident, conservative, reactionary, obtuse, stupid, thickheaded, bigoted, hidebound, narrow, blind, unenlightened, uninformed, poor, struggling, medieval, benighted, retarded, uncultivated, uncultured

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back‧ward /ˈbækwəd $ -wərd/ adjective

1. [only before noun] looking or facing in the direction that is behind you Antonym : forward:
She went without a backward glance.

2. developing slowly and less successfully than most others:
a backward country
a backward child
—backwardness noun [uncountable]

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backward
adj.
VERBS be, seem
ADV. very | rather, somewhat a rather backward child
economically, educationally

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backward
ˈbækwəd
See: bend over backward or lean over backward; fall over backwards or fall over oneself

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