backward
backward adj
OE on bæc, in the rear.
- Retrospective; longing; nostalgic; reminiscent; remembering.
- Upcoming; endmost; [fig.] yet unread.
backward adv
see backward, adj.
- Away; with the face toward the starting point.
- To a place of origin; toward the starting place.
- Downward; in the opposite direction from heaven.