back+-wards

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbækwɜːdz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbækwɝdz/

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1. If something is backwards, it is facing the back.

1. Something that is backwards is inefficient and not advanced. (sometimes considered offensive when describing a person, especially a child)

   This society is very backwards, primitive in comparison to the country we came from.