downwards

Adverb

WordNet 3.0

Adverb (1)

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”Synonyms: down downward downwardly

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. "Looking downwards." --Pope. [1913 Webster]

Their heads they downward bent.— Drayton.[1913 Webster]

2.From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin. [1913 Webster]

And downward fell into a groveling swine.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

3.From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line. [1913 Webster]

A ring the county wears, That downward hath descended in his house, From son to son, some four or five descents.— Shak.[1913 Webster]