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单词 backward
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backwardadjective

uk/ˈbæk.wəd/us/ˈbæk.wɚd/

backward adjective (NOT INTELLIGENT/MODERN)

C2 not advanced:

When he was a child, his teachers thought he was backward (= unable to learn as much as most children).
People still think of it as a backward country/region/area (= one without industry or modern machines).

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Crude and basic

  • 101
  • at bottom idiom
  • bare
  • basic
  • bottom
  • crude
  • elementary
  • low-tech
  • Mickey Mouse
  • primal
  • primordial
  • rough
  • rough and ready idiom
  • rude
  • simple
  • skeletal
  • stone-age
  • two-dimensional
  • vanilla

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backward adjective (OPPOSITE DIRECTION)

towards the direction that is the opposite to the one in which you are facing:

She left without a backward glance.
He did a fantastic backward somersault.

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Backwards, sideways and back and forth

  • anticlockwise
  • aside
  • back
  • back and forth idiom
  • backwards
  • broadside
  • counterclockwise
  • crabwise
  • hither and thither idiom
  • retro
  • right/wrong way round idiom
  • side
  • sideways
  • stand
  • stand back
  • there
  • there and back idiom
  • to and fro
  • to-ing and fro-ing
  • wrong

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backwardness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈbæk.wəd.nəs/us/ˈbæk.wɚd.nəs/

They were accused of backwardness (= very old-fashioned ways) because they had no washing machine.

Idiom(s)

be backward in coming forward
without (so much as) a backward glance

backwardadverb

uk/ˈbæk.wəd/us/ˈbæk.wɚd/mainly US

→  backwards

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Backwards, sideways and back and forth

  • anticlockwise
  • aside
  • back
  • back and forth idiom
  • backwards
  • broadside
  • counterclockwise
  • crabwise
  • hither and thither idiom
  • retro
  • right/wrong way round idiom
  • side
  • sideways
  • stand
  • stand back
  • there
  • there and back idiom
  • to and fro
  • to-ing and fro-ing
  • wrong

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