1. [adv]  in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward"
2. [adv]  at or to or toward or the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car"
3. [adv]  in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal; "it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'"; "the child put her jersey on backward"
4. [adj]  directed or facing toward the back or rear; "a backward view"
5. [adj]  (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature; "a backward lover"
6. [adj]  retarded in intellectual development

BACKWARD is a 8 letter word that starts with B.

1. \Back"ward\, Backwards \Back"wards\, adv. [Back, adv. +
   -ward.]
   1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride
      backward.
   2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms
      backward.
   3. On the back, or with the back downward.
            Thou wilt fall backward.              --Shak.
   4. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
            Some reigns backward.                 --Locke.
   5. By way of reflection; reflexively. --Sir J. Davies.
   6. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame,
      from religion to sin.
            The work went backward.               --Dryden.
   7. In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction;
      contrarily; as, to read backwards.
            We might have . . . beat them backward home. --Shak.
   

2. \Back"ward\, a.
   1. Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.
   2. Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.
            For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves. --Pope.
   3. Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension;
      dull; inapt; as, a backward child. ``The backward
      learner.'' --South.
   4. Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.
   5. Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country
      or region is in a backward state.
   6. Already past or gone; bygone. [R.]
            And flies unconscious o'er each backward year.
                                                  --Byron.
   

3. \Back"ward\, n.
   The state behind or past. [Obs.]
         In the dark backward and abysm of time.  --Shak.
   

4. \Back"ward\, v. i.
   To keep back; to hinder. [Obs.]