- 1. adv. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. Source: opted
- 2. adv. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin. Source: opted
- 3. adv. From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line. Source: opted
- 4. adv. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position Source: wordnet
- 5. 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. Source: webster
- 6. r:100 r spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position Source: ecdict
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