'Backwards' definitions:
Definition of 'backwards'
(from WordNet)
adverb
At or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car" [syn: back, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards] [ant: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards]
adverb
In a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal; "it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'"; "the child put her jersey on backward" [syn: backward, backwards]
Definition of 'Backwards'
From: GCIDE
- Backward \Back"ward\, Backwards \Back"wards\, adv. [Back, adv. + -ward.]
- 1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. [1913 Webster]
- 3. On the back, or with the back downward. [1913 Webster]
- Thou wilt fall backward. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago. [1913 Webster]
- Some reigns backward. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 5. By way of reflection; reflexively. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster]
- 6. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. [1913 Webster]
- The work went backward. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 7. In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards. [1913 Webster]
- We might have . . . beat them backward home. --Shak. [1913 Webster]