Backwardness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BACKWARDNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being backward
• the state of having made less progress than is normal or expected
• The state of being backward.
• lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• toward the back; with the back foremost

Words related to BACKWARDNESS

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Words that contain BACKWARDNESS

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How to use BACKWARDNESS in a sentence

• But I knew that if I showed any sign of want of spirit or of backwardness, I should be ruined at once.
• When our two friends met the next morning, the count began to bewail the misfortune of his captivity, and the backwardness of friends to assist each other in their necessities.
• A new power was beginning to appear on the horizon, with such modesty and backwardness that none could as yet discern it, least of all could the king.
• The prudent hesitation and backwardness of Holland had at last yielded to the pressure of England.
• Sylvia had not the slightest backwardness about explaining.
• As this was declining beforehand all subordinate office, an excessive modesty could hardly have been the cause of his backwardness at this juncture.
• The two squires would infallibly ruin him upon the least appearance of backwardness on his part, as they were accustomed to do every inferior that resisted their will.
• This was due, like so much else in Russia, to the backwardness of the industrial system.
• In consequence of the backwardness of the nation from the point of view of industrial development, the bourgeoisie was correspondingly backward and weak.
• I make this remark, not so much to reproach my Servian friends with backwardness, but to stimulate them to all easily practicable improvements.
• And in this we have another cause of the backwardness and depression of Mohammedan society.
• With your limited mechanical appliances, and backwardness of electrical science, you will perhaps have difficulty in realizing the practicability of such a construction.
• Marius was unwilling to act against his associates, but he had no alternative, and his backwardness was compensated by the zeal of others.
• From the beginning of the siege the enemy had discovered a backwardness in the service, very unsuitable to their national character.
• He began to thaw out, though he did not lose his backwardness.
• He made acquaintances, slowly lost his backwardness, and presently found college life opening to him bright and beautiful.
• He had the prudence, but not the backwardness, of a man of large knowledge, and considerable experience of the world.
• Barring accidents or backwardness, it continues to grow from that time on through our childhood, but its behavior is always a profound disappointment.
• The two universities presented their money and plate to King Charles, but one cause of his misfortunes was the backwardness of some of his friends in lending him money.
• I was told that millionaires and presidents of trusts were chiefly responsible for any backwardness of public spirit in the United States.
• In each case wars have been entailed in the process, and, as we know, the backwardness of Germany at this period has been visited upon the rest of Europe tenfold in recent times.
• I thought that he was going to remonstrate with me for my backwardness.
• Those two writers can never be accused of having nothing to say, or of backwardness in saying it.
• Nevertheless the backwardness of the colony was attributed to the Negro.

Similar words containing BACKWARDNES without suffix s

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