Adjective upward has 2 senses
- upward - directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen"
Antonym: down (indirect, via up)
- up, upward - extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish"
Antonym: descending (indirect, via ascending)
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Adverbial upward has 2 senses
- up, upwards, upward, upwardly - 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"
Antonyms: down, downwards, downward, downwardly
- up, upwards, upward - to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"
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