downward

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

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

   His position in society moved ever downward.

2. 2
   adv

   At a lower level.

   Dagon his Name, Sea Monster, upward Man / And downward Fish […]

3. 3
   adv

   Southward.

   If we turn to the New World, we find that among the American Indians, from the Eskimo of Alaska downward to Brazil and still farther south, homosexual customs have been very frequently observed.

4. 4
   adj

   Moving, sloping or oriented down.

   He spoke with a downward glance.

5. 5
   adj

   Located at a lower level.

   In her chast Current oft the Goddess laves, And with Celestial Tears augments the Waves. Oft in her Glass the musing Shepherd spies The headlong Mountains and the downward Skies, The watry Landskip of the pendant Woods, And absent Trees that tremble in the Floods;

6. 6
   adj

   on or toward a surface regarded as a base

7. 7
   adj

   extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

8. 8
   adv

   spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

Etymology

From down + -ward.