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Definition of Downward
1. Adjective. Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place. "The downward course of the stream"
2. Adverb. Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position. "Prices plunged downward"
3. Adjective. On or toward a surface regarded as a base. "The downward pull of gravity"
Definition of Downward
1. adv. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards.
2. a. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.
Definition of Downward
1. Adverb. toward a lower level, either in space or in a hierarchy or an amount ¹
2. Adjective. moving or sloping down ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Downward
1. from a higher to a lower place [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Downward
Literary usage of Downward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1888)
"THE CAUSE OF THE HEAD-downward PRESENTATION. IT always has been, and always will
be, a matter of general and scientific interest to know why ninety-seven ..."
2. Gymnastic Teaching by William Skarstrom (1921)
"Arm bending with alternate foot placing sideways, and forward-downward bending.
... Hip grasp wide stride standing downward bending, touching floor, ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1888)
""The way upward and downward are one and the same." Diogenes Laert. ix. 8. ...
says that the road leading upward and downward, and that the whole ' it. ..."
4. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1897)
"It seemed as if I might next cast my line upward into the air, as well as downward
into this element, which was scarcely more dense. ..."
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