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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
downward
adv 1: spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower
level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up
and skied down"; "prices plunged downward" [syn: down,
downwards, downward, downwardly] [ant: up,
upward, upwardly, upwards]
adj 1: extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the
down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream"
[syn: down(a), downward(a)]
2: on or toward a surface regarded as a base; "he lay face
downward"; "the downward pull of gravity"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Downward \Down"ward\, Downwards \Down"wards\, adv. [AS.
ad?nweard. See Down, adv., and -ward.]
1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course;
as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or
downwards. "Looking downwards." --Pope.
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Their heads they downward bent. --Drayton.
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2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery,
humility, disgrace, or ruin.
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And downward fell into a groveling swine. --Milton.
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3. From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from
one to another in a descending line.
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A ring the county wears,
That downward hath descended in his house,
From son to son, some four or five descents. --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Downward \Down"ward\, a.
1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place;
tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower
level; declivous.
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With downward force
That drove the sand along he took his way. --Dryden.
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2. Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward
line of descent.
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3. Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed;
dejected; as, downward thoughts. --Sir P. Sidney.
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Thesaurus Results for downward:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
adown, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, below, collapsing, deciduous, declining, declivitous, decurrent, descendant, descending, down, down south, down-reaching, down-trending, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downgrade, downhill, downline, downright, downsinking, downstairs, downstream, downstreet, downtown, downwards, downwith, drifting, drooping, dropping, falling, flowing, fluent, flying, going, gyrational, gyratory, mounting, on the descendant, on the downgrade, passing, plummeting, plunging, progressive, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, sagging, setting, sideward, sinking, sliding, slipping, soaring, streaming, submerging, subsiding, tottering, tumbledown, up-trending, upward |
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Common Misspellings > |
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