Meanings (ES + gloss)
atrasado • rezagado • subdesarrollado • tercermundista
Expressing lack of development or advancement.
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 ev…
They were a backward people without any writing.
anticuado • desactualizado • pasado de moda • retrógrado • trasnochado
Expressing lack of development or advancement.
The party’s ideas and policies are very backward.
Phrases
ass backwardass-backwardbackward compatibilitybackward compatiblebackward complimentbackward designbackward divebackward in coming forwardbackward inductionbackward integrationbackward linkagebackward maskingbackward passbackward pawnbackward rationalizationbackward slashbackward time machinebackward-compatiblebackward-lookingbackward-lookingnessbackwardationbackwardismbackwardlybackwardnessbend over backwardcambackfast backwardforward-backward algorithmother backward classunbackwardwork backward
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