Outward vs Afterward - What's the difference?
outward | afterward |
outer; located towards the outside
visible, noticeable
Tending to the exterior or outside.
* Dryden
(obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.
Towards the outside; away from the centre.
:We are outward bound.
*Shakespeare
*:The wrong side may be turned outward .
(obsolete) Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly.
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*:ANd thenne the quene lete make a preuy dyner in london vnto the kny?tes of the round table / and al was for to shewe outward that she had as grete Ioye in al other knyghtes of the table round as she had in sir launcelot / al only at that dyner she had sir Gawayne and his bretheren
(obsolete, rare) To ward off; to keep out.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.1:
(US) subsequently to some other action
As adverbs the difference between outward and afterward
is that outward is towards the outside; away from the centre while afterward is (us) subsequently to some other action.As an adjective outward
is outer; located towards the outside.As a verb outward
is (obsolete|rare) to ward off; to keep out.outward
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl)Adjective
(en adjective)- By all outward indications, he's a normal happy child, but if you talk to him, you will soon realize he has some psychological problems.
- The fire will force its outward way.
- an outward war
- (Hayward)
Adverb
(en adverb)Synonyms
* outwardsDerived terms
* outwardnessEtymology 2
From .Verb
(en verb)- Ne any armour could his dint out-ward ; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard.
