Backward is valid Scrabble Word

Is backward a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is backward valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
20 points in Scrabble
22 points in WWF

Definitions for BACKWARD in dictionary:

VERB:

Alt. of Backwards
To keep back; to hinder.

NOUN:

The state behind or past.

ADVERB:

in a reverse direction, also BACKWARDS
at or to or toward the back or rear
in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
in or to or toward a past time

ADJECTIVE:

directed behind or to the rear
reverting to an inferior state; retrograde
having made less progress than is normal or expected

(of a person) having learning difficulties
lacking the confidence to do (something)
Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.
Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.
Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child.
Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.
Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.
Already past or gone; bygone.
directed or facing toward the back or rear
(used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
retarded in intellectual development
having made less than normal progress
(of a fielding position) behind an imaginary line passing through the stumps at the batsman's end at right angles to the wicket

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

toward the back
same as backwards

Words related to BACKWARD

backwardly25 backwardness24 backwardnesses26 backwards21

Words that contain BACKWARD

backwards21 backwardly25 backwardness24 backwardation25 backwardations26 backwardnesses26

How to use BACKWARD in a sentence

He gave no glance backward at the boy, for he knew his instructions would be carried out faithfully and intelligently.
Without them, anarchy would reign and humanity would drop backward into the primitive night out of which it had so painfully emerged.
Everybody wanted to obtain the best place, and now there was no getting either backward or forward.
He expected that he would answer the question in the negative, by sticking out his jaw and throwing his head a little backward.
Occasionally they would toss their heads backward, when up all the birds would fly into the air only to descend again as soon as the cattle were quiet.
When they spring upon their human prey they are known even to bend the victim backward and double its body till the back is broken.
He lifted a hand in signal, and Johnny leaned backward, digging in his heels instead of his toes.
She walked to the end of the room, looking backward over her shoulder.
We should not be backward in our efforts to secure permanent foothold for the truth as we hold and practice it.
He nearly came back into the cart, but the tremendous jerk gave the backward turn to the wheels and I was off again.

His great bloated arms encircling me, bending me backward, holding me helpless.
His career shows no step backward, the places he filled were all of the highest, the services he rendered were the most difficult as well as the most eminent.
Roman Catholic in religion, they are generally poor, illiterate, backward in civilization, and oppressed.
But he did not come, and when, at a distance of two blocks, she stole a backward glance, he had disappeared.
The baroness held the paper in the dimpled hand, the fingers of which curved slightly backward, their nails cut square like those of an antique statue.
Being fond of astronomy, he was struck with the backward condition of that science in our country.
They lie in wait, helpless, unable to move backward or forward, ears greedy for the latest rumours from the active front, and hearts prone to feelings of depression and despair.
His body is slightly bent backward, eyes fixed on the soldier, countenance expressing fear.
She rose and left the presence chamber, stepping backward and too much moved to speak.
As a rule they dance in groups of four, men and women facing each other and moving backward and forward five or six steps.
When the nation feels its feet sliding backward, as if it walked on the ice, the time has come for a supreme effort.
The wheels of Nature are not made to roll backward.
Instead of being confined to its former limits, her population has rolled backward, and filled up the spaces included within her actual local boundaries.
Bert tried to manoeuvre for a more level footing, but Prescott drove him slowly backward.
Then she began to pass backward and forward before the trunk of a tree.
He rose from his chair, walked his room, swinging his hands backward and forward, casting furtive glances into his mirror, and then rang his bell.
She saw Gordon go on his limping way without a single backward glance.
So he only combed and brushed it backward as smoothly as he could.

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