backward

Adjective

• having made less than normal progress
  • an economically backward country
    

• retarded in intellectual development

• (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
  • a backward lover
    

• directed or facing toward the back or rear
  • a backward view
    

Adverb

• in or to or toward a past time
  • set the clocks back an hour
    
  • never look back
    
  • lovers of the past looking fondly backward
    

• in 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'
    
  • the child put her jersey on backward
    

• at or to or toward the back or rear
  • he moved back
    
  • tripped when he stepped backward
    
  • she looked rearward out the window of the car
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  half-witted , slow-witted , feebleminded , back , backwards , rearward , rearwards
• Antonyms: 
  forward , ahead , forwards , frontward , frontwards , forrad , forrard