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词汇 backwardly
释义 backwardly
adverb
uk /ˈbæk.wəd.li/ us /ˈbæk.wɚd.li/

backwardlyadverb (DIRECTION)


towards the direction that is the opposite to the one in which you are facing: 向后的;与面对方向相反的
If a cat's ears are backwardly turned, it may mean that the animal is angry or afraid.
The tour guide was addressing us while walking backwardly and almost stepped into a puddle.
The pawn is the only chess piece that cannot move backwardly.
The country seemed to be moving backwardly based on what he was seeing on the news.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Backwards, sideways and back and forth
anticlockwise
back and forthidiom
back to frontphrase
backward
backwards
laterad
lateral
laterally
libration
pull
reverse
round
saw
stand
step aside
swept-back
take someone aside
there and backidiom
to and fro
wrong

backwardlyadverb (MAKING WORSE)


in a way that is wrong or makes something worse:
It is backwardly illogical to attack a country because you think it is wrong that they are attacking another country.
The new laws are backwardly oppressive and out of touch with a progressive idea of freedom.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Crude and basic
101
at bottomidiom
backward
backwardness
bare
inelegant
inelegantly
low-tech
Mickey Mouse
over-simple
rough and readyidiom
roughly
roughness
rudely
rudeness
skeletal
skeletally
stone-age
two-dimensional
vanilla
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