Synonyms for aback
əˈbækaback

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1. aback

   Synonyms:
   backwards, rearwards, aft, abaft, astern, behind, back

   Antonyms:
   onwards, forwards, ahead, before, afront, beyond, afore

Princeton's WordNet

1. abackadverb

   having the wind against the forward side of the sails

   "the ship came up into the wind with all yards aback"

2. abackadverb

   by surprise

   "taken aback by the caustic remarks"

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1. abackadjective

   Synonyms:
   backwards, rearwards, regressively

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1. List of paraphrases for "aback":

   unawares

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How to use aback in a sentence?

1. Attorney Casey Yontz:

   I was immediately taken aback and told him he needed to seek legal recourse immediately, keith sat on the email way too long.

2. Zach Adamson:

   I've been taken aback by the mischaracterizations from outside the state of Indiana about what is in this bill. this isn't 1950 Alabama; it's 2015 Indiana.

3. Vijay Samant:

   You can't give an optimistic message that the vaccine is going to be developed in December and then come December you don't have a vaccine. Then people are wondering what happened, in the meantime, you know, they have given up social distancing in the assumption that the vaccine going to be developed in six months, and people are taken aback what's going on, they lose confidence.

4. Niki DaSilva:

   I couldn’t leave her there alone, so I positioned myself between the co-worker and the attorney general to act as a buffer, after a few moments, Attorney General Hill put his hand on my back. I was taken aback by this gesture as we had never held a conversation before that night. I felt his hand start to slide slowly down my back.

5. Kabeer Taneja:

   India was taken aback by the response, communal issues are not new in India and in previous cases, we have not had such a response [ from Arab states ].