look backward

1. 1.

   look towards one's back

   “don't look back while you walk”

   Synonymslook back

   Broaderlook

Questions about look backward

What does look backward mean?

look backward means "look towards one's back".

What is another word for look backward?

Close synonyms include look back. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is look backward a common word?

look backward is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.