Switched vs. Backwards

Switchedverb

simple past tense and past participle of switch

Backwardsadjective

Oriented toward the back.

‘The battleship had three backwards guns at the stern, in addition to the primary complement.’;

Backwardsadjective

Reversed.

‘The backwards lettering on emergency vehicles makes it possible to read in the rear-view mirror.’;

Backwardsadjective

(derogatory) Behind current trends or technology.

‘Modern medicine regards the use of leeches as a backwards practice.’;

Backwardsadjective

Clumsy, inept, or inefficient, especially in learning.

‘He was a very backwards scholar, but he was a marvel on the football field.’;

Backwardsadverb

Toward the back.

‘The cabinet toppled over backwards.’; ‘Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.—Søren Kierkegaard’;

Backwardsadverb

In the opposite direction to usual.

‘The clock did not work because the battery was inserted backwards.’;

Backwardsadverb

In a manner such that the back precedes the front.

‘The tour guide walked backwards while droning on to the bored seniors.’;

Backwardsadverb

at or to or toward the back or rear;

‘he moved back’; ‘tripped when he stepped backward’; ‘she looked rearward out the window of the car’;

Backwardsadverb

in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal;

‘it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'’; ‘the child put her jersey on backward’;

Backwardsadverb

(of a movement) in the direction of one's back

‘he took a step backwards’; ‘Penny glanced backwards’;

Backwardsadverb

(of an object's motion) back towards the starting point

‘the tape rolled backwards’;

Backwardsadverb

in reverse of the usual direction or order

‘count backwards from twenty to ten’;

Backwardsadverb

towards the past

‘the songs look backwards to long-ago battles’;

Backwardsadverb

towards or into a worse state

‘a step backwards for the economy’;