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Outward vs Exterior - What's the difference?

outward | exterior | Synonyms |

As adjectives the difference between outward and exterior

is that outward is outer; located towards the outside while exterior is relating to the outside parts or surface of something.

As an adverb outward

is towards the outside; away from the centre.

As a verb outward

is to ward off; to keep out.

As a noun exterior is

the outside part, parts or surface of something.

outward

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • outer; located towards the outside
  • visible, noticeable
    • 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.
  • Tending to the exterior or outside.
  • * Dryden
    • The fire will force its outward way.
  • (obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.
    • an outward war
    (Hayward)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • 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.
  • *:
  • *: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
    • Synonyms
    * outwards
    Derived terms
    * outwardness

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, rare) To ward off; to keep out.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.1:
    • Ne any armour could his dint out-ward ; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard.

    Anagrams

    * *

    exterior

    English

    Alternative forms

    * exteriour (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to the outside parts or surface of something.
    • the exterior part of a sphere
  • * Shakespeare
    • Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man / Resemble that it was.
  • Being from outside a country; foreign.
    • the exterior relations of a state or kingdom
  • Outdoors.

    • Antonyms

    * interior

    Related terms

    * exteriorize, exteriorise

    See also

    * external

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The outside part, parts or surface of something.
    • The sticker was attached to the exterior of the package
  • * '>citation
  • Foreign lands.
    • She is our new minister of the exterior

    Antonyms

    * interior