English-Polish translations for backwards

• do tyłu
  W najlepszym wypadku można powiedzieć, że Białoruś przyjęła demokrację, wykonując dwa kroki do przodu i jeden do tyłu. At best, you could say that they have embraced democracy by taking two steps forward and one step backwards.
  To krok do tyłu, to policzek dla małego państwa, które faktycznie robi wszystko, aby nam dogodzić i otworzyć negocjacje. This is a step backwards, it is a slap in the face of a small state that is really making every effort to go along with us and open negotiations.
• wstecz
  Jest to moim zdaniem krok wstecz. This is, in my opinion, a step backwards.
  W szczególności Turcja uczyniła wielki krok wstecz. Turkey, in particular, has taken a major step backwards.
  Europa najwyraźniej maszeruje wstecz, ku Arabii z VI wieku. Europe is boldly marching backwards to sixth-century Arabia.

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