English-Swedish translations for backwards

• baklänges
  Att stå stilla är att gå baklänges.To stand still is to go backwards.
  Vem vill sätta sig på ett tåg för att åka baklänges?Who in their right mind would take a train that moved backwards?
  Efter den senaste utvidgningen verkar det sociala Europa röra sig i två olika hastigheter, men i båda fallen baklänges.After the last enlargement, it seems that social Europe is developing at two rates, with both of them going backwards.
• bakvänd
• bakåt
  Det är verkligen inget steg bakåt.It is by no means a step backwards.
  Att stå still är att gå bakåt.To stand still is to move backwards.
  I stället kommer vi att ta ett steg bakåt.Instead we will take a step backwards.
• bakåtriktad
• efter
  Vi kommer att dra en lättnadens suck efter åtta års tillbakagång.We will breathe a sigh of relief after eight years of going backwards.
  Efter tre år har denna agenda kört fast; den går till och med bakåt.After three years, this agenda is stalled, indeed it is going backwards.
  Ändå har vi alla känslan av, ni, jag med, att vi ständigt ligger ett steg efter.However, we all have the impression, you and I, that we are going backwards.
• efterbliven
• omvänd

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