Backwards and Contrary

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Backwards adverb - In a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal.

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Contrary and backwards are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Contrary" instead an adverb "Backwards".

Nearby Words: back, backward

Contrary adjective - Being as different as possible.

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Backwards and contrary are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Backwards" instead an adverb "Contrary".

Contrary to popular belief, Nintendo optical discs aren't spun backwards nor they are read outside-in.

Source: Copy Protection / Nintendo
The plot for EMIT, a Visual Novel trilogy on the Super Famicom, dealt with a parallel universe where time flowed contrary to our own; thus, anyone traveling from there to our world would begin to age backwards.

Source: Merlin Sickness
Subverted in Children of the Mind: In a backwards attempt to explain why she is so contrary, Quara reveals to Wang-mu that she was sexually abused at a young age by Quim, her soon-to-be sainted brother.

Source: Freudian Excuse / Literature

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