backward

backward

englanti

  1. takapajuinen, jälkeenjäänyt

Synonyymisanakirja

backward

  1. taaksepäin suuntautuva, taaksepäinen, taakse katsova, päinvastainen, taantuva, taakse taivutettu, taaksepäin taipunut, retrospektiivinen.

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Käännökset

englanti

kehittymätön, taantumuksellinen, alikehittynyt

väärin päin

taaksepäinen puhekieltä Pertaining to the direction towards the back.

They left without a backward glance.

puhekieltä Pertaining to the direction reverse of normal.

The occasional backward movement of planets is evidence they revolve around the sun.

reluctant Reluctant or unable to advance.
1919, w:William Somerset Maugham|W. Somerset Maugham, w:The Moon and Sixpence|The Moon and Sixpence, s:The Moon and Sixpence/Chapter LI|chapter 51
Then her eyes, always alert for the affairs of her kitchen, fell on some action of the Chinese cook which aroused her violent disapproval. She turned on him with a torrent of abuse. The Chink was not backward to defend himself, and a very lively quarrel ensued.
Don't be backward in suggesting story ideas to local media but always think of the wants, needs and desires of their readers when selling-in story ideas.http://www.mortgagemagazine.com.au/detail_article.cfm?articleID=364
Of a culture considered undeveloped or unsophisticated.
Most cruelly, the immediate security interests of the United States and the states surrounding Somalia are now to keep it a failed state, to prevent Islamists from consolidating even a weak state centered on Mogadishu. The leader of the victorious faction, one Aden Hashi 'Ayro, is said to be a veteran of Afghanistan; he knows well what a small sanctuary in a backward corner of the globe can mean for al Qaeda. http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/06/1851044
Pertaining to a thought or value that is considered outdated.
Replace the morbid, bankrupting, backward idea of superpower domination: Weapons dismantled. Global warming reversed. Perhaps, in time, overpopulation, poverty, starvation, ignorance and disease all resolved. Thus, moral determination combined with 21st Century science, ecology and social initiatives will make possible a resonant fulfillment of our American Revolution http://www.counterpunch.org/bice01042003.html
puhekieltä On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
puhekieltä further Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
puhekieltä Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
Alexander Pope
For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves.
Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.

a backward child

Late or behindhand.

a backward season

1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
"(..) I've a job of work to finish tonight; mourning, as must be in time for the funeral to-morrow; and grandfather has been out moss- hunting, and will not be home till late.""Oh, how charming it will be! I'll help you if you're backward. Have you much to do?"
puhekieltä Already past or gone; bygone.
Byron
and flies unconscious o'er each backward year
puhekieltä In the direction towards the back; backwards

to walk or ride backward; to throw the arms backward

Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
John Locke
some reigns backward
By way of reflection; reflexively.

(rfquotek)

From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
Dryden
The work went backward.
The state behind or past.
Shakespeare
In the dark backward and abysm of time.

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