Downward vs Decreasing - What's the difference?
downward | decreasing |
Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
As an adverb downward
is toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.As an adjective downward
is moving or sloping down.As a verb decreasing is
present participle of decrease.downward
English
Adverb
(en-adv) (or downwards )- His position in society moved ever downward .
- Their heads they downward bent.
- A ring the county wears, / That downward hath descended in his house, / From son to son, some four or five descents.
