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Definitions for: Upward
[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"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Synonyms: up, up, upwardly, upwards
Antonyms: down, downward, downwardly, downwards
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