backward

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

adjective

dull, slow: P. and V. σκαιός, νωθής, ἀμαθής, ἀφυής, P. βλακικός, see dull.

not eager: P. ἀπρόθυμος, ὀκνηρός.

I am backward in the customs of the Greeks: V. λέλειμμαι τῶν ἐν Ἕλλησιν νόμων (Euripides, Helen 1246).