Definitions for UPWARDS
up·wards

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. up, upwards, upward, upwardlyadverb

   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"

2. up, upwards, upwardadverb

   to a later time

   "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. upwardsadverb

   Towards a higher place; towards what is above.

2. upwardsadverb

   To a higher figure or amount.

3. upwardsadverb

   Towards something which is higher in order, larger, superior etc.

4. upwardsadverb

   Backwards in time, into the past.

5. upwardsadverb

   To or into later life.

6. Etymology: From upweardes, uppweardes.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Upward, Upwardsadverb

   Etymology: up and weard .

   1. Towards a higher place.

   I thought
   To smooth your passage, and to soften death:
   For I would have you, when you upward move,
   Speak kindly of me to our friends above. Dryden.

   In sheets of rain the sky descends,
   And ocean swell’d with waters upwards tends;
   One rising, falling one; the heav’ns and sea
   Meet at their confines, in the middle way. Dryden.

   A man on a cliff, is at liberty to leap twenty yards downwards into the sea, not because he has power to do the contrary action, which is to leap twenty yards upwards, for that he cannot do; but he is therefore free, because he has a power to leap, or not to leap. John Locke.

   2. Towards heav’n and God.

   Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Richard Hooker, b. v.

   3. With respect to the higher part.

   Dagon, sea-monster! upward man,
   And downward fish. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. i.

   4. More than; with tendency to a higher or greater number.

   Their counsel must seem very unseasonable, who advise men now to suspect that, wherewith the world hath had, by their own account, twelve hundred years acquaintance and upwards, enough to take away suspicion. Richard Hooker, b. v.

   I have been your wife in this obedience
   Upward of twenty years; and have been blest
   With many children by you. William Shakespeare, Hen. VIII.

   5. Towards the source.

   Be ’s works your study;
   Thence form your judgment, thence your notions bring,
   And trace the muses upward to their spring. Alexander Pope.

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1. upwards

   Upwards refers to a direction or movement towards a higher point or position, physically, metaphorically, or statistically. It can imply improvement, advancement, or progress.

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1. Upwardsadverb

   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

2. Upwardsadverb

   in the upper parts; above

3. Upwardsadverb

   yet more; indefinitely more; above; over

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1. Upwards

   Upwards is a Mercury Music Prize nominated album by British hip hop artist Ty, released in 2003 by Big Dada.

British National Corpus

1. Adverbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'UPWARDS' in Adverbs Frequency: #339

Anagrams for UPWARDS »

1. updraws

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of UPWARDS in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of UPWARDS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of UPWARDS in a Sentence

1. Georges Bernanos:

   What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

2. Carla Sims:

   The rest of the homes were to be priced between $250,000 and upwards of $600,000, in Yellow Springs, and in many other places, that is not considered affordable housing.

3. Anthony Tan:

   When that happens, it attracts more partners and it's a virtuous upwards cycle. Great for business.

4. Beth Garvey:

   It was outside the target red, or orange or yellow cluster zone, but the information that our investigation revealed was that upwards of 10,000 individuals... planned to attend.

5. Phil Flynn:

   People are now realizing that this OPEC meeting could be a historic turning point for the market, now, with U.S. production cuts, our sense is that we're entering a new cycle upwards.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=UPWARDS
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Upwards
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=UPWARDS
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/UPWARDS
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=UPWARDS