Commentary vs Backword - What's the difference?
commentary | backword |
A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.
An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.
As nouns the difference between commentary and backword
is that commentary is a series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work while backword is a contention, retort, or reply.commentary
Noun
(commentaries)- This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary . -(Henry Hallam).
