Backward
Backward is a valid word in word games.
- Tile score
- 20 points
- Letters
- 8
- Syllables
- 2
- How common
- Less common
Meaning of backward
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adjectiveDirected or facing toward the back or rear.
“a backward view”
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adjective(used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature.
“a backward lover”
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adjectiveRetarded in intellectual development.
Similar: feebleminded
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adverbAt or to or toward the back or rear.
“he moved back”
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adverbIn a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal.
“it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'”
Similar: backwards
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adverbIn or to or toward a past time.
“set the clocks back an hour”
Similar: back
Definitions from WordNet 3.0, Princeton University.
Anagrams of backward
- drawback20
Words inside backward
Words of three letters or more made from its letters, longest first.
- award9
- aback13
- kabar11
- wrack14
- back12
- card7
- dark9
- brad7
- draw8
- ward8
- bard7
- bark10
- carb8
- crab8
- drab7
- rack10
- arak8
- bawd10
- braw9
- craw9
- darb7
- kbar10
- wack13
- wark11
- cark10
- dawk12
- bad6
- car5
- war6
- arc5
- bar5
- raw6
- aba5
- ark7
- bra5
- cab7
- cad6
- dab6
- dak8
- daw7
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