Definizione monolingua

backward

backward (comparative more backward, superlative most backward)

1. (of motion) Pertaining to the direction towards the back.
2. (of motion) Pertaining to the direction reverse of normal.

   The occasional backward movement of planets is evidence they revolve around the sun.

3. Reluctant or unable to advance.
   • Dont be backward in suggesting story ideas to local media but always think of the wants, needs and desires of their readers when selling-in story ideas.[1]
4. Of a culture considered undeveloped or unsophisticated.
   • Most cruelly, the immediate security interests of the United States and the states surrounding Somalia are now to keep it a failed state, to prevent Islamists from consolidating even a weak state centered on Mogadishu. The leader of the victorious faction, one Aden Hashi Ayro, is said to be a veteran of Afghanistan; he knows well what a small sanctuary in a backward corner of the globe can mean for al Qaeda. [2]
5. Pertaining to a thought or value that is considered outdated.
   • Replace the morbid, bankrupting, backward idea of superpower domination: Weapons dismantled. Global warming reversed. Perhaps, in time, overpopulation, poverty, starvation, ignorance and disease all resolved. Thus, moral determination combined with 21st Century science, ecology and social initiatives will make possible a resonant fulfillment of our American Revolution [3]
6. (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsmans popping crease.
7. (cricket) Further behind the batsmans popping crease than something else.

backward (comparative more backward, superlative most backward)

1. (of motion) In the direction towards the back; backwards

Definizione dizionario backward

	indietro
	In a backward direction.

a

arretrato

deficiente

riluttante

supino

tardivo

Altri significati:

undeveloped (countries)

(cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.

(of motion) In the direction towards the back; backwards

(of motion) Pertaining to the direction towards the back.

reluctant to advance

(of motion) Pertaining to the direction reverse of normal.

Reluctant or unable to advance.

of an outdated value

of the direction reverse of normal

(cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.

Pertaining to a thought or value that is considered outdated.

in the direction towards the back

undeveloped

Of a culture considered undeveloped or unsophisticated.

of the direction towards the back