All backward synonyms
backΒ·ward
B b adj backward
- bashful β Someone who is bashful is shy and easily embarrassed.
- late β occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- sluggish β indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent: a sluggish disposition.
- underdeveloped β improperly or insufficiently developed.
- undeveloped β not developed.
- rearward β Also, rearwards. toward or in the rear.
- back β 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.
- aback β towards the back; backwards
- abaft β closer to the stern than to another place on a vessel
- about β You use about to introduce who or what something relates to or concerns.
- astern β Something that is astern is at the back of a ship or behind the back part.
- behind β 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.
- inverted β to turn upside down.
- afraid β If you are afraid of someone or afraid to do something, you are frightened because you think that something very unpleasant is going to happen to you.
- averse β If you say that you are not averse to something, you mean that you quite like it or quite want to do it.
- demure β If you describe someone, usually a young woman, as demure, you mean they are quiet and rather shy, usually in a way that you like and find appealing, and behave very correctly.
- diffident β lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
- disinclined β lacking desire or willingness; unwilling; averse: I'm disinclined to go to the movies tonight.
- hesitant β hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.
- hesitating β to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
- humble β not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- indisposed β sick or ill, especially slightly: to be indisposed with a cold.
- loath β unwilling; reluctant; disinclined; averse: to be loath to admit a mistake.
- modest β having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions.
- reluctant β unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
- reserved β kept in reserve; forming a reserve: a reserve fund; a reserve supply.
- retiring β that retires.
- shy β bashful; retiring.
- tardy β late; behind time; not on time: How tardy were you today?
- timid β lacking in self-assurance, courage, or bravery; easily alarmed; timorous; shy.
- unwilling β not willing; reluctant; loath; averse: an unwilling partner in the crime.
- wavering β to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- arrested β to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar.
- delayed β of or relating to a particle, as a neutron or alpha particle, that is emitted from an excited nucleus formed in a nuclear reaction, the emission occurring some time after the reaction is completed.
- dense β Something that is dense contains a lot of things or people in a small area.
- dull β not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- imbecile β Informal. a dunce; blockhead; dolt: Don't stand there like an imbecile. Open the door!.
- moronic β Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- stupid β lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- underprivileged β denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
- feeble-minded β lacking the normal mental powers.
- checked β Something that is checked has a pattern of small squares, usually of two colours.
- subnormal β below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.
adjective backward
- retrograde β moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
- regressive β regressing or tending to regress; retrogressive.
- recessive β tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.