Downward

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • ad. In, to, or toward a lower place, level, or position: floating downward.
  • ad. Toward a lower position in a hierarchy or on a socioeconomic scale: slid downward into poverty.
  • ad. Toward the feet or lower parts: clothed from the waist downward.
  • ad. Toward a lower amount, degree, or rank: stocks plummeted downward.
  • ad. From a prior source or earlier time: passed downward through the ages.
  • adj. Directed toward a lower place or position: downward movement.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • ad. toward a lower level, either in space or in a hierarchy or an amount
  • adj. moving or sloping down
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • ad. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course.
  • ad. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin.
  • ad. From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line.
  • adj. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.
  • adj. Descending from a head, origin, or source.
  • adj. Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • From a higher to a lower place, condition, or state.
  • In a course or direction from a head, origin, source, or remoter point in space or in time: as, water flows downward toward the sea; to trace successive generations downward from the earliest records.
  • In the lower parts; as regards the lower parts or extremities.
  • Moving or tending from a higher to a lower place, condition, or state; taking a descending direction, literally or figuratively: as, the downward course of a mountain path, or of a drunkard.
  • Descending from a head, origin, or source: as, the downward course of a river; a downward tracing of records.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
  • adj. on or toward a surface regarded as a base
  • ad. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
  • Equivalent
    descending    down    downwards   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    declivous    depressed    dejected    Dow   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    upward    vertical    forward    slow    steep