Thesaurus: downward

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1. adv. Alt. of Downwards
2. a. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.
3. a. Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.
4. a. Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts.
5. adj. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
6. adj. on or toward a surface regarded as a base
7. adv. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
8. 1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. "Looking downwards." Pope. Their heads they downward bent. Drayton. 2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin. And downward fell into a groveling swine. Milton. 3. From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line. A ring the county wears, That downward hath descended in his house, From son to son, some four or five descents. Shak. 1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden. 2. Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent. 3. Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts. Sir P. Sidney.
9. r:43/j:57 s. on or toward a surface regarded as a base