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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. Their heads they downward bent. --Drayton. 2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin. And downward fell into a groveling swine. --Milton. 3. From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line A ring the county wears, That downward hath descended in his house, From son to son, some four or five descents. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way --Dryden. 2. Descending from a head, origin, or source; as a downward line of descent. 3. Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as downward thoughts. --Sir P. Sidney. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: downward adj 1: on or toward a surface regarded as a base; "he lay face downward"; "the downward pull of gravity" [syn: {downward(ip)}] 2: extending or moving from a higher to a lower place "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream" [syn: {down(a)}, {downward(a)}] adv : 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}, {downwardly}] [ant: {up}, {up}, {up}, {up}]
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