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backward
Synonyms and Antonyms of backward
- a backward turn on ice skates is hard to learn because you can't see where you're going
- curiously, the quiet, backward man opened up when around other introverts
boon, clubbable (also clubable), companionable, convivial, gregarious, sociable, social
extroverted (also extraverted), immodest, outgoing
Synonyms and Antonyms of backward
- looking backward, we could see the town receding in the distance
anticlockwise [chiefly British], counterclockwise, left-handed, left-handedly, retrograde, reversely, widdershins (also withershins)
- the loud noise prompted him to glance backward to see what was happening
behind, down, downward (or downwards), rearward (also rearwards)
across, athwart, counter, counterclockwise, widdershins (also withershins)
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