Synonyms for backwards


Grammar : Adv
Spell : bak-werd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæk wərd

Top 10 synonyms for backwards Other synonyms for the word backwards

Définition of backwards

Origin :
  • 1510s, from backward with adverbial genitive. Figurative phrase bend over backwards is recorded from 1901.
  • adv back
  • adv backward
Example sentences :
  • Up and down, backwards and forwards, inside and out, and all hands around.
  • Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
  • Steps which move forwards or backwards, shall be taken to be in the fourth Position.
  • Extract from : « Orchesography » by John Weaver
  • There are three ways of doing this, forwards, backwards, and sideways.
  • Extract from : « Orchesography » by John Weaver
  • He knew them, he would have informed you, backwards and forwards.
  • Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley
  • And unless we secure it, there will be only a march backwards.
  • Extract from : « Another Sheaf » by John Galsworthy
  • She staggered to the table, and he bent her backwards across it.
  • Extract from : « The White Lie » by William Le Queux
  • His spies went daily backwards and forwards with details about me.
  • Extract from : « In the Forbidden Land » by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
  • They are going sidewise, and backwards, and every way, and are all entangled together.
  • Extract from : « Rollo on the Rhine » by Jacob Abbott
  • And of course we have only two directions, forwards and backwards.
  • Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
  • He was comin' in backwards, tryin' to wave off the gang that was follerin' him.
  • Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford

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