upward Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite directed up
    • the cards were face upward
    • an upward stroke of the pen
  2. adjective satellite extending or moving toward a higher place
    up.
    • the up staircase
    • a general upward movement of fish
  3. adverb spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
    upwardly; up; upwards.
    • look up!
    • the music surged up
    • the fragments flew upwards
    • prices soared upwards
    • upwardly mobile
  4. adverb to a later time
    up; upwards.
    • they moved the meeting date up
    • from childhood upward

WordNet

Up"ward, Up"wards adverb (Also<
  • Upward
  • Upwards
)
Etymology
AS. upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.
Definitions
  1. 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. I. Watts.
    Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker.
  2. In the upper parts; above.
    Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. Milton.
  3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
    From twenty years old and upward. Num. i. 3.
    I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years. Shak.
Up"ward adjective
Etymology
AS. upweard. See Up, and -ward.
Definitions
  1. Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
Up"ward noun
Definitions
  1. The upper part; the top. Obs.
    From the extremest upward of thy head. Shak.

Webster 1913