The Meaning of backward

• (adv.) Alt. of Backwards
• (a.) Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.
• (a.) Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.
• (a.) Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child.
• (a.) Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.
• (a.) Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.
• (a.) Already past or gone; bygone.
• (n.) The state behind or past.
• (v. i.) To keep back; to hinder.

Rhymes

transferred , blizzard , recurred , dickeybird , heard , injured , hot-tempered , richard , dismembered , gifford , well-measured , hampered , cream-colored , well-tempered , textured , spurred , admired , ordered , shimmered , hollered , configured , fettered , guilford , towered , snickered , plassard , hanford , southwestward , bettered , bailard , sherard , bowerbird , packard , upward , herd , foreword , villard , eighty-third , catchword , swearword , arbored , good-humored , unhonoured , standard , placard , unmeasured , laboured , mannered , ivory-towered , slankard , honored , inquired , incurred , west-northwestward , liford , cluttered , littered , keyword , burred , restructured , belabored , broward , whirlybird , gaillard , uncovered , three-cornered , substandard , unaltered , forty-third , perjured , starboard , hunkered , stradford , biohazard , bantered , straw-colored , hangbird , uncensured , akard , gas-fired , rearward , skyward , uncluttered , well-armored , acred , trenchard , ladybird , layered , unfiltered , meandered , snakebird , spired , well-tailored , corn-colored , songbird , tired , recaptured , hazard , stamford , laggard , brassard , vinyard , blackbeard , featured , homeward , glittered , sunward , frontward , firebird , overheard , antbird , hereford , kurd , scattered , mattered , square-shouldered , angered , leftward , lepard , greybeard , withered , mastered , stanard , hayward , wavered , tortured , blanchard , cankered , friarbird , rocard , endeavored , pickford , purred , unnumbered , cupboard , remembered , mustered , rose-colored , wired , sequestered , scoured , lansford , sheppard , leafbird , manufactured , coffered , lustred , hammered , sheltered , spickard , danford , bothered , watchword , stafford , well-hammered , byrd , unsheltered , offered , heckard , richerd , powdered , rutherford , reconsidered , light-fingered , ashford , churchward , inspired , figured , cityward , deferred , chauffeured , glandered , encumbered , engird , tedford , rust-colored , petard , wandered , hired , stanford , disfigured , afterward , abelard , devoured , curd , blurred , inward , papered , bordered , leppard , skewered , onward , preferred , ruford , norward , lollard , half-covered , r-colored , fired , unregistered , severed , dufford , overword , mousebird , pictured , oilbird , pandered , herd hird , wollard , well-mannered , flavored , trafford , wondered , staggered , murdered , unexpired , willard , mustard , empowered , blackard , time-honored , duford , flickered , seaford , billiard , unsugared , wizard , concurred , powered , outnumbered , gird , undesired , swineherd , burd , lily-livered , baynard , savored , hartford , bird , manford sanford , bollard , ill-mannered , headword , reedbird , chartered , hovered , registered , kingbird , factored , laggen-gird , dollard , ahungered , checkered , safford , dove-colored , butcherbird , stannard , ovenbird , ferd , mallard , white-livered , flustered , chambered , vineyard , sired , uninjured , countercolored , unencumbered , bransford , tempered , sheward , flowered , plundered , party-colored , good-tempered , multicolored , motored , thaggard , pritchard , butterfingered , stoddard , ransford , bartered , jerde , glost-fired , tattered , quartered , milk-livered , filtered , unlettered , goatsbeard , rediscovered , guttered , mumford , even-tempered , shumard , deterred , donnered , custard , coffee-colored , splattered , wickard , yardbird , conspired , reword , half-heard , mitered , fifty-third , west-southwestward , cowherd , sculptured , smothered , snowbird , winword , unlaboured , hard-favored , misword , downward , rockered , neutered , weathered , lyford sifford , szilard , recovered , northward , soward , leisured , shepard , uncensored , considered , bradford , deferred demurred , jiggered , rumored , lenhard , scabbard , villard willard , bastard , differed , longbeard , mofford , wynyard , untutored , unstirred , sugared , well-laboured , tankard , scampered , bayard , lingard , flattered , byword , good-natured , unheard , fibered , hummingbird , enraptured , twiford , bufford , shepherd , leonard venard , hubbard , gifferd , well-lettered , quick-tempered , slandered , crossword , bewildered , pollard , hufford , miniard , gathered , seward , undeterred , quizard wizard , lectured , hazzard , whitebeard , varicolored , unmannered , tow-colored , colored , lumbard , inferred , lovebird , unwithered , acquired , biscuit-fired , buford , ill-favoured , undergird , unfathered , favored , membered , required , reheard , sputtered uttered , plastered , sunbird , banford , dickered , clustered , lustered , maynard , harvard , sideward , hundred(4) , tapered , leopard , half-colored , reynard , numbered , winward , favoured , pittard , shattered spattered , slaughtered , tailorbird , catty-cornered , kingsford , awkward , endangered , goddard , blizard , ventured , vanward , vennard , misheard , eckard , word , overpowered , cloistered , festered , prichard , uncoloured , scrub-bird , occured , centered , furred , transfered , muttered , landward , thagard , goatherd , high-powered , unstructured , uninspired , bickford , thirty-third , clifford , daynard , eastward , round-shouldered , edward , well-centered , counterword , rikard sicard , north-northwestward , carry-forward , coloured , bedford , armored , short-tempered , shuttered , thedford , hindward , well-sugared , heward , faltered , martyred , chenard , ice-scoured , ill-natured , password , mentored , east-southeastward , rainbird , badgered , east-northeastward , pinard , pillard , kitty-cornered , thundered , niggard , heyward , suffered , cranford , wingard , blanford , humored , transferred uncured , pillared , jailbird , howard , fingered , eppard , gestured , southeastward , blundered , rufford