backslider, n. apostate, renegade, deserter, recreant, pervert.

backsliding, n. apostasy, defection, relapse, recidivism, recreancy,
retrogradation.

backsliding, a. apostate, renegade, retrogressive, recidivous,
recreant, unfaithful.

backward, a. retrograde, retrogressive, reverse, regressive;
retrospective; reluctant, averse, loath, disinclined, unwilling; dull,
inapt; late, tardy, delayed; undeveloped.

backwardness, n. reluctance, averseness, unwillingness,
disinclination, hesitancy; inaptness, dullness; lateness, tardiness;
undevelopment.

bacon, n. Associated Words: lardoon, bard, flitch, gammon, lard.

bad, a. evil, wicked, immoral, iniquitous, arrant, corrupt, depraved,
sinful, base, demoralized, sinister, licentious, unprincipled, abandoned,
graceless, vicious, incorrigible, unscrupulous, miscreant, reprobate,
disreputable, rascal, scoundrel, profligate, knavish, naughty, malevolent,
malicious, unrighteous, degrading, dissolute, libertine, hardened, wanton;
injurious, prejudicial, pernicious, detrimental, baneful, unwholesome,
baleful, deleterious, mischievous, noisome, malign, malignant, noxious,
unpropitious, disadvantageous; offensive, serious, grave, severe, mortal;
defective, imperfect, incompetent, inferior; untoward, depressing,
unwelcome, adverse, grievous, unfavorable, inauspicious; infertile,
inarable; barren, unproductive, worthless; hard, heavy, serious,
irreparable, egregious; nefarious, felonious, infamous, villainous,