Backward
Alt. of Backwards
Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.
Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.
Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child.
Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.
Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.
Already past or gone; bygone.
The state behind or past.
To keep back; to hinder.
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Backward Quotations
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln
Revolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. Mencken
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Vladimir Lenin
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Stephen Fry
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Ann Landers
Backward Translations
backward in Afrikaans is agterlik
backward in Dutch is achterover
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