'Upward' definitions:
Definition of 'upward'
From: WordNet
adverb
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, upward, upwardly] [ant: down, downward, downwardly, downwards]
adverb
To a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward" [syn: up, upwards, upward]
adjective
Directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen"
adjective
Extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish" [syn: up(a), upward(a)]
Definition of 'Upward'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Upward'
From: GCIDE
- Upward \Up"ward\, n. The upper part; the top. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- From the extremest upward of thy head. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Upward'
From: GCIDE
- Upward \Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adv. [AS. upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. In the upper parts; above. [1913 Webster]
- Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over. [1913 Webster]
- From twenty years old and upward. --Num. i. 3. [1913 Webster]
- Upward of, or Upwards of, more than; above. [1913 Webster]
- I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'upward'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- above,
- abovestairs,
- airward,
- aloft,
- aloof,
- anabatic,
- ascendant,
- ascending,
- ascensional,
- ascensive,
- axial,
- back,
- back-flowing,
- backward,
- climbing,
- descending,
- down-trending,
- downward,
- drifting,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- flying,
- going,
- gyrational,
- gyratory,
- heavenward,
- high,
- high up,
- in the air,
- in the ascendant,
- in the clouds,
- leaping,
- mounting,
- on high,
- on stilts,
- on the peak,
- on tiptoe,
- over,
- overhead,
- passing,
- plunging,
- progressive,
- rampant,
- rearing,
- reflowing,
- refluent,
- regressive,
- retrogressive,
- rising,
- rotary,
- rotational,
- rotatory,
- running,
- rushing,
- saltatory,
- scandent,
- scansorial,
- sideward,
- sinking,
- skyrocketing,
- skyward,
- soaring,
- spiraling,
- springing,
- straight up,
- streaming,
- tiptoe,
- to the zenith,
- up,
- up attic,
- up north,
- up steps,
- up-trending,
- upalong,
- uparching,
- upcoming,
- upgoing,
- upgrade,
- uphill,
- uphillward,
- uplong,
- uprising,
- upsloping,
- upstairs,
- upstream,
- upstreamward,
- uptown,
- upwards,
- upwith