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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. directed up;
- Example: "the cards were face upward"
- Example: "an upward stroke of the pen"

2. extending or moving toward a higher place;
- Example: "the up staircase"
- Example: "a general upward movement of fish"
[syn: up(a), upward(a)]


ADVERB (2)

1. spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position;
- Example: "look up!"
- Example: "the music surged up"
- Example: "the fragments flew upwards"
- Example: "prices soared upwards"
- Example: "upwardly mobile"
[syn: up, upwards, upward, upwardly]

2. to a later time;
- Example: "they moved the meeting date up"
- Example: "from childhood upward"
[syn: up, upwards, upward]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Upward \Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adv. [AS. upweardes. See
   Up-, and -wards.]
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   1. 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. --I. Watts.
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            Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking
            upward, we speak and prevail.         --Hooker.
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   2. In the upper parts; above.
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            Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man,
            And down ward fish.                   --Milton.
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   3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
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            From twenty years old and upward.     --Num. i. 3.
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   Upward of, or Upwards of, more than; above.
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            I have been your wife in this obedience
            Upward of twenty years.               --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Upward \Up"ward\, a. [AS. upweard. See Up, and -ward.]
   Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with
   upward course.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Upward \Up"ward\, n.
   The upper part; the top. [Obs.]
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         From the extremest upward of thy head.   --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

upward
    adv 1: 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" [syn: up, upwards, upward,
           upwardly] [ant: down, downward, downwardly,
           downwards]
    2: to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from
       childhood upward" [syn: up, upwards, upward]
    adj 1: directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward
           stroke of the pen"
    2: extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up
       staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish" [syn:
       up(a), upward(a)]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

89 Moby Thesaurus words for "upward":
   above, abovestairs, airward, aloft, aloof, anabatic, ascendant,
   ascending, ascensional, ascensive, axial, back, back-flowing,
   backward, climbing, descending, down-trending, downward, drifting,
   flowing, fluent, flying, going, gyrational, gyratory, heavenward,
   high, high up, in the air, in the ascendant, in the clouds,
   leaping, mounting, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe,
   over, overhead, passing, plunging, progressive, rampant, rearing,
   reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary,
   rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, saltatory, scandent,
   scansorial, sideward, sinking, skyrocketing, skyward, soaring,
   spiraling, springing, straight up, streaming, tiptoe,
   to the zenith, up, up attic, up north, up steps, up-trending,
   upalong, uparching, upcoming, upgoing, upgrade, uphill, uphillward,
   uplong, uprising, upsloping, upstairs, upstream, upstreamward,
   uptown, upwards, upwith