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rearwards

rearwards adjective: rearward. Also the plural of rearward.

Adjective

rearwards (comparative more rearwards, superlative most rearwards)

  1. Rearward.

Adverb

rearwards (comparative more rearwards, superlative most rearwards)

  1. Rearward.
    • "Never look rearwards, but always to our glorious goal."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Also used as

rearwards is also the plural of rearward.

Forms of rearwards

Adjective
comparativemore rearwards
superlativemost rearwards
Adverb
comparativemore rearwards
superlativemost rearwards

Origin of rearwards

From rear + -wards.

Questions about rearwards

What does rearwards mean?
Rearwards means rearward.
What part of speech is rearwards?
Rearwards can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near rearwards in the dictionary

  1. rearviews
  2. rearward
  3. rearwardly
  4. rearwardmost
  5. rearwardness
  6. rearwards
  7. reas
  8. reascend
  9. reascendance
  10. reascendancy
  11. reascendant

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