backwards

• POS: Adverb
• HYPHEN: back=wards
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

backwards, adv. [Back, adv. + -ward.].

•  With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.  [1913 Webster]
•  Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.  [1913 Webster]
•  On the back, or with the back downward.  [1913 Webster]

  "Thou wilt fall backward."  [1913 Webster]
•  Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.  [1913 Webster]

  "Some reigns backward."  [1913 Webster]
•  By way of reflection; reflexively.  Sir J. Davies.  [1913 Webster]
•  From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.  [1913 Webster]

  "The work went backward."  [1913 Webster]
•  In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.  [1913 Webster]

  "We might have . . . beat them backward home."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

backwards, adv.
1 away from one's front (lean backwards; look backwards).
2 a with the back foremost (walk backwards). b in reverse of the usual way (count backwards; spell backwards).
3 a into a worse state (new policies are taking us backwards). b into the past (looked backwards over the years). c (of a thing's motion) back towards the starting-point (rolled backwards).

Idiom

backwards and forwards in both directions alternately; to and fro. bend (or fall or lean) over backwards (often foll. by to + infin.) colloq. make every effort, esp. to be fair or helpful. know backwards be entirely familiar with.

ROGET THESAURUS

backwards

Regression

N regress, regression, retrocession, retrogression, retrograduation, retroaction, reculade, retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration, recession, recess, crab-like motion, refluence, reflux, backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return, resilience reflection, reflexion (recoil), flip-flop, volte-face, counter motion, retrograde motion, backward movement, motion in reverse, counter movement, counter march, veering, tergiversation, recidivation, backsliding, fall, deterioration, recidivism, recidivity, reversal, relapse, turning point, receding, retrograde, retrogressive, regressive, refluent, reflex, recidivous, resilient, crab-like, balky, reactionary, back, backwards, reflexively, to the right about, a reculons, a rebours, revenons a nos moutons, as you were.