English-Dutch translations for backwards

• achterstevoren
• achteruit
  Dit is dus in werkelijkheid een stap achteruit. So that is a real step backwards.
  De ontwikkeling gaat achteruit. Things are moving backwards, not forwards.
  Daarom zou ik dat een stap achteruit vinden. Therefore I believe that is a step backwards.
• achterwaarts
  De beslissing om de Armeense genocide niet in de nieuwe resolutie op te nemen, is een stap achterwaarts die ik niet kan steunen. The decision to omit the Armenian genocide from the new resolution is a step backwards and one that I cannot support.

Definition of backwards

• Oriented toward the back
• Reversed
• Behind current trends or technology
• Clumsy, inept, or inefficient, especially in learning
• Toward the back
• In the opposite direction to usual
• In a manner such that the back precedes the front
• towards the past; ago

Examples

• The battleship had three backwards guns at the stern, in addition to the primary complement
• The backwards lettering on emergency vehicles makes it possible to read in the rear-view mirror.
• Modern medicine regards the use of leeches as a backwards practice.
• He was a very backwards scholar, but he was a marvel on the football field.
• The cabinet toppled over backwards.
• Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.—Søren Kierkegaard
• The clock did not work because the battery was inserted backwards.
• The tour guide walked backwards while droning on to the bored seniors.

Related words

• ass-backwards
• backwards and forwards
• backwards with the greyhounds
• bend over backwards
• know backwards
• fall backwards
• move backwards