Native vs Backward - What's the difference?
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Belonging to one by birth.
Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
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Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
(biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by man.
(computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
(mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form; native aluminium, native salt.
Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
* (rfdate) (Cudworth)
Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
(lb) A person of aboriginal stock, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
(of motion) Pertaining to the direction towards the back.
(of motion) Pertaining to the direction reverse of normal.
Reluctant or unable to advance.
* 1919 ,
* Don't be backward in suggesting story ideas to local media but always think of the wants, needs and desires of their readers when selling-in story ideas.[http://www.mortgagemagazine.com.au/detail_article.cfm?articleID=364]
Of a culture considered undeveloped or unsophisticated.
* Most cruelly, the immediate security interests of the United States and the states surrounding Somalia are now to keep it a failed state, to prevent Islamists from consolidating even a weak state centered on Mogadishu. The leader of the victorious faction, one Aden Hashi 'Ayro, is said to be a veteran of Afghanistan; he knows well what a small sanctuary in a backward corner of the globe can mean for al Qaeda. [http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/06/1851044]
Pertaining to a thought or value that is considered outdated.
* Replace the morbid, bankrupting, backward idea of superpower domination: Weapons dismantled. Global warming reversed. Perhaps, in time, overpopulation, poverty, starvation, ignorance and disease all resolved. Thus, moral determination combined with 21st Century science, ecology and social initiatives will make possible a resonant fulfillment of our American Revolution [http://www.counterpunch.org/bice01042003.html]
(cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
(cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
(obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
* Alexander Pope
Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
Late or behindhand.
(obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.
* Byron
(of motion) In the direction towards the back; backwards
Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
* John Locke
By way of reflection; reflexively.
From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
* Dryden
The state behind or past.
* Shakespeare
As adjectives the difference between native and backward
is that native is belonging to one by birth while backward is pertaining to the direction towards the back.As nouns the difference between native and backward
is that native is a person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place while backward is the state behind or past.As an adverb backward is
in the direction towards the back; backwards.native
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This is my native land.
- English is not my native language.
- I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…
- What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians.
- The native peoples of Australia are called aborigines.
- a native inhabitant
- native oysters or strawberries
- Many native artists studied abroad.
- The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple.
- This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.
- The native integer size is sixteen bits.
- Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native , rising and vanishing again in long periods of times.
- native dust
- (Milton)
- The head is not more native to the heart, / Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
Antonyms
* foreign, fremdDerived terms
* go native * native soil * native speaker * native witNoun
(en noun)- Some natives must have stolen our cattle.
Usage notes
* In North America, (m)/(m) came into use as an umbrella term for the indigenous inhabitants of America as (m) began to fall out of formal usage (because it originated from Columbus's mistaken belief that he was in India and the people he encountered were Indians). Other designations include (m), (Native Canadian), and (m). In Canada, the terms include (Inuit) and (Metis) and the adjectives (m)/(m).Synonyms
* (l)See also
* native cat * nativity * nativizationStatistics
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- They left without a backward glance.
- The occasional backward movement of planets is evidence they revolve around the sun.
- Then her eyes, always alert for the affairs of her kitchen, fell on some action of the Chinese cook which aroused her violent disapproval. She turned on him with a torrent of abuse. The Chink was not backward to defend himself, and a very lively quarrel ensued.
- For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves.
- a backward child
- a backward season
- and flies unconscious o'er each backward year
Synonyms
* (in reverse direction) retrograde * (of an undeveloped culture) third world * backwards, fogyish, old-fashioned, antiquated, antediluvian, unprogressive, retrograde, outdated, parachronistic, out of dateAntonyms
* (of an undeveloped culture) forward * (of an outdated thought) progressiveAdverb
(en adverb)- to walk or ride backward'''; to throw the arms '''backward
- some reigns backward
- The work went backward .
Synonyms
* backwardsAntonyms
* forward, forwardsNoun
- In the dark backward and abysm of time.