backwarder
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who or something that hinders progress or advancement, especially socially or politically.
Example Sentences
- "It is of the utmost importance, therefore, that this religion should be kept pure, — free from stagnation, superstition, backwarders, free from the waste products that naturally accumulate with time; — a free, living, lifegiving force that will serve as a perennial inspiration to the people."
- "Despite sixty years of research reaffirming Parker's subjective judgment, the basic backwarders are out to eliminate open education and just about anything else that might make some sense."
- "In reality, according to Michels, women are “far from being as different from men as the fanatical stagnators or backwarders of our social order imagine them to be.”"