Upward - Definition

adv 1: 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" [syn: up, upwards, upward,
upwardly] [ant: down, downward, downwardly,
downwards]
2: to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from
childhood upward" [syn: up, upwards, upward]
adj 1: directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward
stroke of the pen"
2: extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up
staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish" [syn:
up(a), upward(a)]