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English Dictionary: Outward by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outward
adv
  1. toward the outside; "move the needle further outward!"
    Synonym(s): outward, outwards
    Antonym(s): inward, inwards
adj
  1. relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind; "a concern with outward beauty rather than with inward reflections"
    Antonym(s): inward
  2. that is going out or leaving; "the departing train"; "an outward journey"; "outward-bound ships"
    Synonym(s): outbound, outward, outward-bound
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outward \Out"ward\, Outwards \Out"wards\, adv. [AS. [?]teweard.
      See {Out}, and {-ward}, {-wards}.]
      From the interior part; in a direction from the interior
      toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away;
      as, a ship bound outward.
  
               The wrong side may be turned outward.      --Shak.
  
               Light falling on them is not reflected outwards. --Sir
                                                                              I. Newton.
  
      {Outward bound}, bound in an outward direction or to foreign
            parts; -- said especially of vessels, and opposed to
            {homeward bound}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outward \Out"ward\, a.
      1. Forming the superficial part; external; exterior; --
            opposed to {inward}; as, an outward garment or layer.
  
                     Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is
                     renewed day by day.                           --Cor. iv. 16.
  
      2. Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what is
            external; manifest; public. [bd]Sins outward.[b8]
            --Chaucer.
  
                     An outward honor for an inward toil.   --Shak.
  
      3. Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war.
            [Obs.] --Hayward.
  
      4. Tending to the exterior or outside.
  
                     The fire will force its outward way.   --Dryden.
            -- {Out"ward*ly}, adv. -- {Out"ward*ness}, n.
  
      {Outward stroke}. (Steam Engine) See under {Stroke}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outward \Out"ward\, n.
      External form; exterior. [R.]
  
               So fair an outward and such stuff within. --Shak.
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