outward

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   toward the outside

   move the needle further outward!

2. 2
   adj

   relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind

   a concern with outward beauty rather than with inward reflections

3. 3
   adj

   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.

4. 4
   adj

   Tending to the exterior or outside.

   The fire will force its outward way.

5. 5
   adj

   Foreign; not civil or intestine.

   an outward war

6. 6
   adv

   Towards the outside; away from the centre.

   We are outward bound.

7. 7
   adv

   Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly.

   ANd thenne the quene lete make a preuy dyner in london vnto the knyȝtes 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

8. 8
   verb

   To ward off; to keep out.

   Ne any armour could his dint out-ward; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard.

Etymology

From Middle English outward, from Old English ūtweard, equivalent to out + -ward.