Definition of backwards Backwards

/bæˈkwɚdz/ - [bakwerdz] - back•wards

We found 18 definitions of backwards from 5 different sources.

What does backwards mean?

Adverb
backwards - 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"
		back, backward, rearward, rearwards
backwards - 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"
		backward

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backwards (adv.)
With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
backwards (adv.)
Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
backwards (adv.)
On the back, or with the back downward.
backwards (adv.)
Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
backwards (adv.)
By way of reflection; reflexively.
backwards (adv.)
From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
backwards (adv.)
In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.

backwards
A technical word made use of in the British service to express the retrograde movement of troops from line into column, and vice versa. Also a word of command in the U. S. service, to cause a man, or body of men, to march to the rear without changing front.