- Delay or hold back progress - Hold back - Impede - Inhibit - Keep - Keep back or hinder - To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from
progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to
retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed
to accelerate.
- Rearward - Alt. of Backwards - Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances. - Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. - Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension;
dull; inapt; as, a backward child. - Late or behindhand; as, a backward season. - Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the
country or region is in a backward state.