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Sunwards vs Sunward - What's the difference?

sunwards | sunward | Synonyms |

Sunwards is a synonym of sunward.


As adverbs the difference between sunwards and sunward

is that sunwards is toward the sun while sunward is in the direction of the sun.

As an adjective sunward is

directed or turned toward the sun.

sunwards

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Toward the sun.

    • sunward

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Directed or turned toward the sun.
  • * 1916 James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    • His heart trembled; his breath came faster and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as though he were soaring sunward .

    Quotations

    * 1984 Laura R. Lyons, David J. Williams - Quantitative Aspects of Magnetospheric Physics *: The surface, positively charged on the dawn side and negatively charged on the evening side, separates the regions of sunward and anti-sunward plasma

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In the direction of the sun.

    • Synonyms

    * sunwards

    Antonyms

    * antisunward

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