downward : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: downward	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for downward
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
downward 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" Synonym(s): down, downwards, downward, downwardly Antonym(s): up, upward, upwardly, upwards adj extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream" Synonym(s): down(a), downward(a) on or toward a surface regarded as a base; "he lay face downward"; "the downward pull of gravity"
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. [bd]Looking downwards.[b8] --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.