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backwards

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Word parts

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back + -wards

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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Preposition
backwards

  1. If something is backwards, it is facing the back.

Adjective

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Positive
backwards

Comparative
more backwards

Superlative
most backwards

  1. Something that is backwards is inefficient and not advanced. (sometimes considered offensive when describing a person, especially a child)
    This society is very backwards, primitive in comparison to the country we came from.

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