English-Italian translations for backwards

• indietro
  Assistiamo quindi ad un vero e proprio passo indietro. So that is a real step backwards.
  Anzi, stanno compiendo passi indietro. Instead they are moving backwards.
  Sicuramente non si tratta di un passo indietro. It is by no means a step backwards.

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