BACKWARDS Synonyms

• direction toward the rear

• at or to or toward the back or rear

• located in or toward the back or rear

• directed or moving toward the rear

• lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance

• causing inconvenience

• difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape

• not elegant or graceful in expression

• hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment

• socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner

• related to or located at the back

• the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine

• the side that goes last or is not normally seen

• the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer

• (football) a person who plays in the backfield

• the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

• the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book

• the part of a garment that covers the back of your body

• a support that you can lean against while sitting

• (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage

• in or to or toward a former location

• at or to or toward the back or rear

• in or to or toward an original condition

• in or to or toward a past time

• in reply

• in repayment or retaliation

• located at or near the back of an animal

• of an earlier date

• be behind; approve of

• travel backward

• give support or one's approval to

• cause to travel backward

• support financial backing for

• be in back of

• place a bet on

• shift to a counterclockwise direction

• establish as valid or genuine

• strengthen by providing with a back or backing

• in a contrary disobedient manner

• with the order reversed

• contrary to expectations

• not refined or processed

• a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

• not carefully or expertly made

• conspicuously and tastelessly indecent

• belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

• devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

• not processed or subjected to analysis

• marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past

• showing lack of skill or aptitude

• legally not qualified or sufficient

• not qualified or suited for a purpose

• someone who is not competent to take effective action

• showing lack of skill or aptitude

• not doing a good job

• not meeting requirements

• no longer in use

• old; no longer valid or fashionable

• having little money or few possessions

• characterized by or indicating poverty

• lacking in quality or substances

• people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)

• deserving or inciting pity

• of insufficient quantity to meet a need

• a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

• a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

• a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms

• belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

• little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

• used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies

• of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style

• at or to or toward the back or rear

• moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth

• of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma

• going from better to worse

• moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction

• move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies

• move in a direction contrary to the usual one

• move back

• go back over

• get worse or fall back to a previous condition

• control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit

• an event in which one thing is substituted for another

• hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure

• railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock

• a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment

• a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other

• the act of changing one thing or position for another

• change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence

• exchange or give (something) in exchange for

• lay aside, abandon, or leave for another

• make a shift in or exchange of

• cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation

• flog with or as if with a flexible rod

• reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

• a likeness in which left and right are reversed