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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Directed or facing toward the back or rear: retrograde, retrogressive. See PRECEDE. 2. Having only a limited ability to learn and understand: dull, simple, simple-minded, slow, slow-witted. Informal : soft. Offensive : feeble-minded, half-witted, retarded, weak-minded. See ABILITY. 3. Not progressing and developing as fast as others, as in economic and social aspects: lagging, underdeveloped, undeveloped. See PRECEDE. 4. Economically and socially below standard: depressed, deprived, disadvantaged, impoverished, underprivileged. See RICH. 5. Exhibiting lack of education or knowledge: benighted, ignorant, primitive, unenlightened. See KNOWLEDGE. 6. Not forward but reticent or reserved in manner: bashful, coy, demure, diffident, modest, retiring, self-effacing, shy1, timid. See RESTRAINT. 7. Clinging to obsolete ideas: conservative, reactionary, unprogressive. See POLITICS. | | ADVERB: | 1. In or toward a former location or condition: about, around, back, backwards, rearward, round. See APPROACH. 2. Toward the back: about, around, back, backwards, rearward. See PRECEDE.
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