backwards

CEFRC1

/ˈbækwɜːdz/

adverb · adjective

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In plain English

01
adverb
Toward the back or in the opposite direction.
02
adverb
Extra detail
third-person singular simple present indicative of backward

Examples

I lost my balance and fell backwards.
In tennis and ping-pong backhand the hand is turned backwards in making the stroke.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meaning

In context

You've got your priorities backwards.
My train back is a Class 800 bi-mode. These are not too bad, except for their awful seats - compared with the seats on the HST, they are a step backwards.

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My train back is a Class 800 bi-mode. These are not too bad, except for their awful seats - compared with the seats on the HST, they are a step backwards.
2025 November 12, 'Mystery Shopper', “Is Devon the cream of the crop?”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 47
The length of the stoppages could not well be reduced; indeed, they are already too short if we are to believe the tale now current of a wandering Jew sort of passenger—a lady of advanced years who can only alight from a train backwards. Every time she begins to get out a porter rushes up crying "Hurry up, ma'am; train's going!"—and pushes her in again!
1944 May and June, “When the Circle was Steam Operated”, in Railway Magazine, page 150

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From backward + -s. See also -s (“used in the formation of certain adverbs: backwards, downwards, inwards, etc.”).