The difference between Backwards and Poor

When used as adjectives, backwards means oriented toward the back, whereas poor means with little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

Backwards is also adverb with the meaning: toward the back.

Poor is also noun with the meaning: those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.

check bellow for the other definitions of Backwards and Poor

  1. Backwards as an adjective:

    Oriented toward the back.

    Examples:

    "The battleship had three backwards guns at the stern, in addition to the primary complement''."

  2. Backwards as an adjective:

    Reversed.

    Examples:

    "The backwards lettering on emergency vehicles makes it possible to read in the rear-view mirror."

  3. Backwards as an adjective (derogatory):

    Behind current trends or technology.

    Examples:

    "Modern medicine regards the use of leeches as a backwards practice."

  4. Backwards as an adjective:

    Clumsy, inept, or inefficient, especially in learning.

    Examples:

    "He was a very backwards scholar, but he was a marvel on the football field."

  1. Backwards as an adverb:

    Toward the back.

    Examples:

    "The cabinet [[topple]]d over backwards."

    "Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.''—Søren Kierkegaard"

  2. Backwards as an adverb:

    In the opposite direction to usual.

    Examples:

    "The clock did not work because the battery was inserted backwards."

  3. Backwards as an adverb:

    In a manner such that the back precedes the front.

    Examples:

    "The tour guide walked backwards while droning on to the bored seniors."

  1. Poor as an adjective:

    With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

    Examples:

    "We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes."

  2. Poor as an adjective:

    Of low quality.

    Examples:

    "That was a poor performance."

  3. Poor as an adjective:

    Used to express pity.

    Examples:

    "Oh you poor little thing."

  4. Poor as an adjective:

    Deficient in a specified way.

    Examples:

    "Cow's milk is poor in iron."

  5. Poor as an adjective:

    Inadequate, insufficient.

    Examples:

    "I received a poor reward for all my hard work."

  6. Poor as an adjective:

    Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

  1. Poor as a noun (with "the"):

    Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.

    Examples:

    "The poor are always with us."

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