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Downward vs Decurved - What's the difference?

downward | decurved |

As adjectives the difference between downward and decurved

is that downward is moving or sloping down while decurved is curved downward.

As an adverb downward

is toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.

downward

English

Adverb

(en-adv) (or downwards )
  • Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
    • His position in society moved ever downward .
  • * Drayton
    • Their heads they downward bent.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A ring the county wears, / That downward hath descended in his house, / From son to son, some four or five descents.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • moving or sloping down
    • He spoke with a downward glance.

    Anagrams

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    decurved

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • curved downward