Backward and Developing

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Backward adjective - Directed, turned, or done toward the back.

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Developing is an antonym for backward in topics: bashful, toward the rear, slow in growth.

Developing adjective - Relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply.

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Backward is an antonym for developing.

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