Synonyms of backward

1 Syllable

shying, coy, coyest, rears, shy, shier, shyer, shyest, rear, back, dull, hind, coyer

2 Syllables

numbskull, humblest, crudest, humbler, about, tardy, blushful, behind, abaft, duller, gorked, dullest, tailer, cruder, rearer, mizzen, aback, astern, rearward, tardier, dumdum, bashful

3 Syllables

reserved, tardily, half-baked, wrong-side-up, unwilling, cowardly, verecund, hesitant, behindhand, everted, demurer, retiring, benighted, retardo, reluctant, uncheerful, uneager, cowhearted, vacillant, reversed, inverted, rabbity, unlearned, retarded, hindermost, diffident

4 Syllables

self-controlled, self-restrained, unassuming, retrograde, overturned, upside-down, bottom-side-up, dilatory, last-minute, godforsaken, shillyshally, disinclined, chicken-hearted, uninclined, unobliging, self-effacing, imbecile, moratory, catabolic

5 Syllables

dilatorily, undeveloped, unprogressive, supplicatory, unactualized, underachieving, uneffusive

6 Syllables

uncompanionable, degenerative, unaccommodating