Downwards
['daʊnwɚdz]
Definition
(adv.) From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards.
(adv.) From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin.
(adv.) From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line.
Checker: Marsha
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. Down, in a descending course.
Typist: Xavier
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Below, beneath, adown
ANT:Upwards, aloft
Editor: Xenia
Examples
- He lay with his face downwards. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I traced his progress downwards, step by step, until at last he reached that excess of destitution from which he never rose again. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- After being placed for an instant between blotting paper, to remove superfluous moisture, it is laid with the drawing downwards on the stone, which is slightly warmed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Her son sate by the table, his arms thrown half across it, his head bent face downwards. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In another moment, he had Gerald swung over lightly and balanced against his knee, head downwards. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yes, I think it rather pretty,' said the beadle, glancing proudly downwards at the large brass buttons which embellished his coat. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- From Solomon downwards, have not wiser men than he been cajoled and befooled by women? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The road from the rectory to Hollow's Mill inclined downwards; she ran, therefore, almost all the way. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As he spoke the Count looked downwards towards the boxes behind us on the pit tier. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is so arranged as to be always going, traveling upwards or downwards, and returning out of sight below. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The pole lay with one end supported on a trestle, and women were engaged in wreathing it from the top downwards with wild-flowers. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Downstairs, then, they went, Joseph very red and blushing, Rebecca very modest, and holding her green eyes downwards. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- After all, when one was fulfilled, one was happiest in falling into death, as a bitter fruit plunges in its ripeness downwards. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She motioned me away with a look of scorn, saying in an harsh voice, as she pointed downwards, There at least I may have her undisturbed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I should rather say that those who elevate astronomy into philosophy appear to me to make us look downwards and not upwards. Plato. The Republic.
Editor: Xenia