Associations to the word «Upwards»

Pictures for the word «Upwards»

Wiktionary

UPWARDS, adverb. Towards a higher place; towards what is above.
UPWARDS, adverb. To a higher figure or amount.
UPWARDS, adverb. Towards something which is higher in order, larger, superior etc.
UPWARDS, adverb. Backwards in time, into the past.
UPWARDS, adverb. To or into later life.
UPWARDS OF, adjective. More than; in excess of

Dictionary definition

UPWARDS, adverb. Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile".
UPWARDS, adverb. To a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats