Backwards
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"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."--Through the Looking-Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll |
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- Oriented toward the back.
- The battleship had three backwards guns at the stern, in addition to the primary complement.
- Reversed.
- The backwards lettering on emergency vehicles makes it possible to read in the rear-view mirror.
- Behind current trends or technology.
- Modern medicine regards the use of leeches as a backwards practice.
- Clumsy, inept, or inefficient.
- He was a very backwards scholar, but he was a marvel on the football field.
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