What does upwards mean?
Definitions for upwards
up·wards
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
up, upwards, upwardadverb
to a later time
"they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"
Wiktionary
upwardsadverb
Towards a higher place; towards what is above.
upwardsadverb
To a higher figure or amount.
upwardsadverb
Towards something which is higher in order, larger, superior etc.
upwardsadverb
Backwards in time, into the past.
upwardsadverb
To or into later life.
Etymology: From upweardes, uppweardes.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Upward, Upwardsadverb
Etymology: up and weard .
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.
Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Richard Hooker, b. v.
Dagon, sea-monster! upward man,
And downward fish. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. i.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.Be ’s works your study;
Thence form your judgment, thence your notions bring,
And trace the muses upward to their spring. Alexander Pope.
ChatGPT
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.
Webster Dictionary
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
Upwardsadverb
in the upper parts; above
Upwardsadverb
yet more; indefinitely more; above; over
Wikidata
Upwards
Upwards is a Mercury Music Prize nominated album by British hip hop artist Ty, released in 2003 by Big Dada.
British National Corpus
Adverbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'upwards' in Adverbs Frequency: #339
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Anagrams for upwards »
updraws
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of upwards in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of upwards in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of upwards in a Sentence
We got reports flames were shooting (up) 80 feet to 200 feet (25-60 meters), you could see it upwards of 10-15 miles (16-24 km) away. Lots of people thought it was in their backyard because it does appear large.
We expect that to take upwards of 10 years, this is a long-term research program.
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
I was amazed by the golden color of the ceiling and the unique paintings all around, i put my camera on the floor and tilted it upwards using a wide lens to capture this photo.
We shouldn’t expect the market to start marching upwards from here, it needs some time to heal.
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- ўверх, наве́рх, уве́рх, ўве́рсеBelarusian
- aufwärtsGerman
- aníos, suasIrish
- a-nìosScottish Gaelic
- ზევით, ზემოთ, მაღლაGeorgian
- wzwyż, w góręPolish
- sen, se, sü, siRomansh
- la deal, în susRomanian
- вы́ше, ввысь, вверхRussian
- gôrSlovene
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