Dictionary Entry
downward
downward is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adverb and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Alt. of Downwards. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adverb
Alt. of Downwards
- 2adjective
Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.
- 3adjective
Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.
- 4adjective
Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts.
- 5adjective
extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
"the down staircase"
"the downward course of the stream"
Synonyms
- 6adjective
on or toward a surface regarded as a base
"he lay face downward"
"the downward pull of gravity"
- 7adverb
spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
"don't fall down"
"rode the lift up and skied down"
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