Meaning of UPWARD
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- [adv] spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile"
- [adv] to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"
- [adj] directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen"
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| | Synonyms: | | up, up, upwardly, upwards |
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| | Antonyms: | | down, downward, downwardly, downwards | | |
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\Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adv. [AS. upweardes. See
{Up-}, and {-wards}.]
1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher
place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed
to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. --I. Watts.
Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking
upward, we speak and prevail. --Hooker.
2. In the upper parts; above.
Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down
ward fish. --Milton.
3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
From twenty years old and upward. --Num. i. 3.
{Upward of}, or {Upwards of}, more than; above.
I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of
twenty years. --Shak.
\Up"ward\, a. [AS. upweard. See {Up}, and {-ward}.]
Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with
upward course.
\Up"ward\, n.
The upper part; the top. [Obs.]
From the extremest upward of thy head. --Shak.
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