upward adj

1 directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen"

2 extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish" [syn: up(a), upward(a)] adv

1 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" [syn: up, upwards, upwardly] [ant: down, down, down, down]

2 to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward" [syn: up, upwards]

English

Etymology

Anglo-Saxon upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.

Pronunciation

• Upward \Up"ward\

Adverb

upward (plural: upwards)

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.

   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.

4. Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.

Noun

1. : The upper part; the top.

   From the extremest upward of thy head. -Shak.

See also

• upwards of
• up

Upward may refer to:

• Upward Bound
• Upward Bound High School
• Upward continuation
• Upward looking sonar
• Upward Spiral
• Upwardly Global
• Upwards (album)

People:

• Allen Upward
• Edward Upward

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