Backwardness

Definition

backward /'bækwǝd/ adj ၁။ ေနာက္သို႔မ်က္ႏွာမူေသာ။ ေနာက္ျပန္။ a backward glance. ၂။ ေနာက္သို႔ျပန္သြားေသာ။ She felt that going back to live in her home town would be a backward step. ၃။ ေခတ္ေနာက္က်န္ေသာ။ မတိုးတက္ေသာ။ a very backward part of the country, with no paved roads and no electricity ❍ John was very backward as a child; he was nearly three before he could walk. ၄။ ~ (in sth) ေနာက္တြန္႔ေသာ။ တြန္႔ဆုတ္ေသာ။ Sheila is very clever but rather backward in expressing her ideas. Compare FORWARD adj backwardness n [U] ❏ backwards (also backward ) adv ၁။ ေက်ာဘက္သို႔။ သမင္လည္ျပန္။ He looked backwards over his shoulder. ၂။ ေနာက္ျပန္။ It's not easy to run backwards. ❍ The word ‘star’ is ‘rats’ backwards. ၃။ ယခင္ေနရာ၊ ယခင္အဆင့္ သို႔။ ေနာက္သို႔။ take a journey backwards through time (ie imagine one is going back to an earlier period in history) ❍ Instead of making progress, my work actually seems to be going backwards. ၄။ ( US ) = BACK TO FRONT ❍ FORWARD ❏ backward(s) and forward(s) [ IDM ] ေရွ႕တိုး ေနာက္ ဆုတ္။ သြားခ်ည္ျပန္ခ်ည္။ ေခါက္တံု႔ေခါက္ျပန္။ travelling backwards and forwards between the east coast and the west coast. ❏ bend/ lean over backwards (to do sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) အသားကုန္ႀကိဳးပမ္းအားထုတ္သည္။ Although we bent over backwards to be kind to her, she still seemed to resent us.

Examples

1. A backward glance
2. A remote and backward region