backward
para trás
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.
translation of 'backward'
adverb
para trás,
negligentemente,
em sentido contrário
adjective
retrógrado,
acanhado,
apalermado,
tímido,
oposto,
inverso,
atrasado
example
Historians in the late 19th and early 20th centuries worked 'backward' and pieced it together.
The general consensus seems to be that a return to a full winter season would be a 'backward' step - and not just because of the impracticalities.
A lot of good work has been done but this is a 'backward' step.
He was looking 'backward' to this life, and wanting it all now.
Whatever his motivations, the move represents a major step 'backward' for Russian democracy.
The one nearest her stands straight up, jerking as if in a seizure, and falls 'backward' from the ladder.
His arm follows and suddenly whips 'backward' , torso turning with it, snapping his back into a terrible arch.
Establishing new structures without a balanced means for selecting participants may be a giant step 'backward' .
But I was to learn that every step forward by the accounting industry was followed by a giant step 'backward' .
The parents in this film are not the cliche and are not those 'backward' people who scream and say don't go out.
At some point next week in a courtroom in Memphis, college football will take one giant leap 'backward' when the gavel strikes and a trial ends.
They are educationally 'backward' so they cannot afford higher professional education, which is growing more and more costly.
Downsizing may seem like a 'backward' step but if, at the end of the year, the reduced enterprise has rid itself of debt and put itself into a profitable position, it will have been the right move.
For a league trying to stand at the forefront of racial and ethnic matters, these were steps 'backward' .
For example, you have in Mexico, poor people who are agriculturally 'backward' .
Suddenly, she heard a shout and saw her brother fall 'backward' .
He could, as he acknowledges, step into the breach in an emergency, but adds: ‘It would be a 'backward' step for the manager to bring me in.’
We are shown images of bees, signifying the 'backward' movement of trying to escape one's destiny.
No excuses, no 'backward' steps, just aggression and dynamism and a lot of honesty, qualities that have finally given him a secure hold on Ireland's No.1 jersey.
Russia's leaders are loath to give these up to what they see as a bunch of 'backward' peasants.
There is absolutely no excuse or justification for such a 'backward' and undemocratic step being taken.
What normal twenty-year old rushed home straight after classes, without a 'backward' glance?
But we in the Western society have called them primitive, as 'backward' people, that we need to come and somehow or other educate.
Without a 'backward' glance, she closed the French doors and unhooked the sash that held the heavy drapes that covered the white lace sheers.
Club members say that many of the children from the economically 'backward' families were registered with the club.
There may well be sound reasons for doing so, but camps neglect to inform the nurse who, in turn, feels as though health promotion has just taken a giant step 'backward' .
Frantically, he thought 'backward' toward the night before.
Given this trend, it is a 'backward' step to talk about ‘producing’ children who could never have an experience of living with both their birth parents.
He hasn't lost faith, even with the Chiefs taking a huge step 'backward' a year go.
Adam turned to Joe to form a united front, but found that Joe had taken a step 'backward' and was now suddenly very interested in attending to a stirrup.
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