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Millie seemed a bit backward in learning to walk. 4 rearward;
to the rear, behind; to the past: She gave him a backward
glance. He went on through life with never a backward look. 5
retrograde, retrogressive, reverse, regressive: The ancients
were unable to account for the apparently backward motion of the
planets.
--adv. 6 backwards: Walk backward to the door with your hands
up.
backwards adv. 1 rearwards or rearward, in reverse, regressively,
retrogressively, backward; withershins or widdershins, Brit
anticlockwise, US counter-clockwise: The general, who refused
to acknowledge defeat, explained that his troops were 'advancing
backwards'. Do the clocks run backwards in Australia, Daddy? 2
in reverse; back to front: She can even ride sitting backwards
on a galloping horse. I think you're wearing your pullover
backwards.
bad adj. 1 poor, wretched, inferior, defective, awful, worthless,
miserable, egregious, execrable, substandard, unsatisfactory,
disappointing, inadequate, non-standard, Colloq lousy, rotten,
crummy, Slang Brit grotty, naff: Sometimes they would send him
a letter, but he was a bad correspondent. We went to see a
rather bad play the other night. 2 corrupt, polluted, vitiated,
debased, base, vile, foul, rotten, miasmic, noxious, mephitic,
unhealthy, poisonous, injurious, dangerous, harmful, hurtful,
pernicious, deleterious, ruinous: It wasn't healthy to be so
near the bad air of the sewer. 3 evil, ill, immoral, wicked,
vicious, vile, sinful, depraved, awful, villainous, corrupt,
amoral, criminal, wrong, unspeakable: The man was thoroughly
bad and deserved everything he got. 4 unpleasant, offensive,
disagreeable, inclement, severe, awful, unfavourable, adverse,
inclement, unpleasant, Colloq lousy, rotten: Surely you're not
going sailing in this bad weather?! 5 unfavourable, unlucky,
unpropitious, unfortunate, inauspicious, troubled, grim,
distressing, discouraging, unpleasant: Agreeing to do that job
might yet turn out to have been a bad decision. 6 off, tainted,
spoilt or spoiled, mouldy, stale, rotten, decayed, putrefied,
putrid, contaminated: The fridge isn't working and all the food
has gone bad. She ate a bad egg and felt ill the next day. 7
irascible, ill-tempered, grouchy, irritable, nasty, peevish,
cross, crotchety, crabby, cranky, curmudgeonly: Don't go near