All back of synonyms
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B b adj back of
- backward — A backward movement or look is in the direction that your back is facing. Some people use backwards for this meaning.
- subsequently — occurring or coming later or after (often followed by to): subsequent events; Subsequent to their arrival in Chicago, they bought a new car.
- later — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- afterwards — If you do something or if something happens afterwards, you do it or it happens after a particular event or time that has already been mentioned.
- rearward — Also, rearwards. toward or in the rear.
- tail — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
- following — the act of following.
- final — pertaining to or coming at the end; last in place, order, or time: the final meeting of the year.
- postern — a back door or gate.
- 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.
- below — If something is below something else, it is in a lower position.
- hindmost — furtherest behind or nearest the rear; last.
- next — immediately following in time, order, importance, etc.: the next day; the next person in line.
- posterior — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
- rear — the back of something, as distinguished from the front: The porch is at the rear of the house.
- thereafter — after that in time or sequence; afterward: Thereafter they did not speak.
- hind — situated in the rear or at the back; posterior: the hind legs of an animal.
- succeeding — being that which follows; subsequent; ensuing: laws to benefit succeeding generations.
- aback — towards the back; backwards
- abaft — closer to the stern than to another place on a vessel
- 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.
- after — If something happens after a particular date or event, it happens during the period of time that follows that date or event.
- astern — Something that is astern is at the back of a ship or behind the back part.
- rearmost — farthest in the rear; last.
- in the wake of — the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness.
adv back of
- trailing — to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
- off the pace — behind the leader; out of first place