↩️ Curved backward 💇 Hair brushed back

backswept

1 6.3

Hair brushed back so it lies toward the back of the head

adjective
/ˈbækswɛpt/

: peinado hacia atrás

Jason was tall and classically handsome, with chiseled features and backswept brown hair.
backswept hair

Examples

She styled her hair in a sleek, backswept fashion to complement her evening gown.
He wore the latest backswept wig, and his coat was cut velvet, embroidered all over with hundreds of frivolous silk butterflies.

Fiction book (1992)
The model walked down the runway flaunting her elegant backswept hairstyle.

Synonyms

sweptback

vsbackswept

1 5.5

Hair combed back away from the face

is the same meaning but uses opposite word order

How Prominent

spiky

15 3.3

sticky-outy hairdo

Informal

9.1

backswept

1 6.3

sleek

49 3.7

Surface Forms

backswept positive

Morphology

backswept = back + sweep (transparent) = back + swept

The meaning is directly derived from 'back' + past-participle of 'sweep' (i.e., swept toward the back), which a B1 learner can infer.

Etymology

Backswept is made of back and swept, which together mean 'swept toward the back' like hair brushed back with a comb, so backswept hair is simply hair that has been styled or brushed toward the back of the head.