Upwards vs Upward - What's the difference?
upwards | upward |
Towards a higher place; towards what is above.
To a higher figure or amount.
Towards something which is higher in order, larger, superior etc.
Backwards in time, into the past.
To or into later life.
In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward.
* (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)
*, chapter=23
, title= In the upper parts; above.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
* Bible, (w) i. 3.
(obsolete) The upper part; the top.
As adverbs the difference between upwards and upward
is that upwards is towards a higher place; towards what is above while upward is in a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward.As a noun upward is
the upper part; the top.As an adjective upward is
directed toward a higher place.upwards
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Adverb
(head)- Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward , we speak and prevail.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward . The slightest effort made the patient cough.}}
- Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, / And downward fish.
- From twenty years old and upward .
Noun
(-)- From the extremest upward of thy head. -Shak.