Definizione monolingua

backwards

backwards (comparative more backwards, superlative most backwards)

1. Oriented toward the back.

   The battleship had three backwards guns at the stern, in addition to the primary complement.

2. Reversed.

   The backwards lettering on emergency vehicles makes it possible to read in the rear-view mirror.

3. (derogatory) Behind current trends or technology.

   Modern medicine regards the use of leeches as a backwards practice.

4. Clumsy, inept, or inefficient.

   He was a very backwards scholar, but he was a marvel on the football field.

backwards (comparative more backwards, superlative most backwards)

1. Toward the back.

   The cabinet toppled over backwards.

   Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.—Søren Kierkegaard

2. In the opposite direction of usual.

   The clock did not work because the battery was inserted backwards.

3. In a manner such that the back precedes the front.

   The tour guide walked backwards while droning on to the bored seniors.

Definizione dizionario backwards

	indietro
	oriented toward the back
	In a backward direction.

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all'indietro

all’indietro

dietro

retrogrado

supino

Altri significati:

Clumsy, inept, or inefficient.

toward the back

in the opposite direction of usual

Reversed.

In the opposite direction of usual.

Oriented toward the back.

with back preceding the front

In a manner such that the back precedes the front.

clumsy or inefficient

behind current trends

reversed

(derogatory) Behind current trends or technology.

Toward the back.