These are the meanings of the letters RAWADBCK when you unscramble them.
- Backward (a.)
Already past or gone; bygone.
- Backward (a.)
Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.
- Backward (a.)
Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.
- Backward (a.)
Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.
- Backward (a.)
Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child.
- Backward (a.)
Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.
- Backward (adv.)
Alt. of Backwards
- Backward (n.)
The state behind or past.
- Backward (v. i.)
To keep back; to hinder.
- Drawback (n.)
A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.
- Drawback (n.)
Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.