backward
ਪਿੱਛੇ
definition
adverb
he took a step backward
(of a movement) away from one's front; in the direction of one's back.
a loving look backward at his early life
toward or into the past.
adjective
she left the room without a backward glance
directed behind or to the rear.
economically backward countries
having made less than normal progress.
example
The first one suggests that the 'backward' economies can make rapid progress by imitating the leaders.
It marks his first slight step 'backward' as a solo artist but it's hardly a failure.
He turned his hat 'backward' and snapped shots of his teammates warming up.
But there are some 'backward' idiots who think that the cultured world ends when you leave the US.
A progressive president and a 'backward' parliament rarely go well together.
Consider practicing lateral and 'backward' movements while drawing smoothly and shooting quickly yet carefully from full concealment.
But the number of these 'backward' people was steadily decreasing.
But I was to learn that every step forward by the accounting industry was followed by a giant step 'backward' .
The one nearest her stands straight up, jerking as if in a seizure, and falls 'backward' from the ladder.
It's not my kind of place at all - plus it would feel somewhat like a 'backward' step, a retrograde manoeuvre, a return to a place of history.
Given the extremely 'backward' state of Polish agriculture, its small farming businesses are expected to die like flies.
Chess is renowned for producing eccentric and socially 'backward' individuals.
Pip is more embarrassed than ever by Joe's ‘ignorance’ and even tells Biddy that he thinks Joe is 'backward' .
His volunteers used to visit each and every house to collect rice and other things just to give solace to the economically and socially 'backward' persons.
And all the time she was looking 'backward' to the day, seemingly so long ago, when she sat on the box seat for the first time, her legs dangling in the air, too short to reach the footboard.
In reality it's because I'm 'backward' and useless.
He took a few more steps 'backward' , nearly at the place where the object lay.
They are educationally 'backward' so they cannot afford higher professional education, which is growing more and more costly.
With the exception of a 'backward' minority, the people in Young genuinely embrace the refugees.
He took it and disappeared without a 'backward' glance.
Punch magazine's comic stereotypes caricaturing agricultural labourers as 'backward' yokels in smocks and chewing straws flourished in the 1870s and live on to this day.
Yet they remain educationally 'backward' and are economically lagging far behind the others.
What normal twenty-year old rushed home straight after classes, without a 'backward' glance?
For a league trying to stand at the forefront of racial and ethnic matters, these were steps 'backward' .
She said that women have equal rights in every field but unfortunately they are still 'backward' because of not having knowledge of their rights.
His arm follows and suddenly whips 'backward' , torso turning with it, snapping his back into a terrible arch.
Without a 'backward' glance, she closed the French doors and unhooked the sash that held the heavy drapes that covered the white lace sheers.
Suddenly, she heard a shout and saw her brother fall 'backward' .
This is a major 'backward' step for the future and for energy generally.
For example, you have in Mexico, poor people who are agriculturally 'backward' .
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