All abaft synonyms
a·baft
A a adverb abaft
- aft — If you go aft in a boat or plane, you go to the back of it. If you are aft, you are in the back.
- back of — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- off the pace — behind the leader; out of first place
adj abaft
- astern — Something that is astern is at the back of a ship or behind the back part.
- back — If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before.
- behind — If something is behind a thing or person, it is on the other side of them from you, or nearer their back rather than their front.
- rearward — Also, rearwards. toward or in the rear.