| 单词 | backwardness |
| 释义 | backwardness (once / 11098 pages) n WORD FAMILY backwardness: backwardnesses+/backward: backwarder, backwardest, backwardly, backwardness USAGE EXAMPLESSuch conservative dress was portrayed at the time as a symbol of backwardness and sectarianism by the secular state. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) That the party represents so many Peruvians is in part an indictment of the country’s educational backwardness. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) Mr. Fils said well-educated city dwellers deepen rural resentments by blithely portraying the countryside as a place of backwardness. New York Times(Dec 06, 2016) n lack of normal development of intellectual capacities Syn|Hypo|Hyper mental retardation, retardation, slowness, subnormality abnormality, mental defectiveness retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence mental deficiency, moronitymild mental retardation amentia, idiocyextreme mental retardation imbecilityretardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot feeblemindednesssevere mental deficiency stupidity a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience |
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