Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. looking
  2. forward
  3. other
  4. utopian
  5. further
  6. look
  7. popular
  8. more
  9. non
  10. rough

What Google Knows

The Other Backward Class is a collective term used by the Government of India to classify castes that are educationally or socially backward.

Related Definition

  1. backward:

    adj Situated toward or at the rear of something.

    adj Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.

    adj Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.

    adj (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.

    adj Reversed in order or sequence.

    adj Reluctant or unable to advance or act.

    adj (figuratively) Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.

    adj (figuratively) Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.

    adj Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.

    adj Late or behindhand.

    adj (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.

    adj (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.

    adj (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.

    adj (obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.

    adj (obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.

    adv At, near or towards the rear of something.

    adv In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.

    adv In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.

    adv (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.

    adv In a reversed orientation; back to front.

    adv In a reversed order or sequence.

    adv Toward or into the past.

    adv (obsolete) In the past.

    adv By way of reflection; reflexively.

    n The state behind or past.


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