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downwards
downwards is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 18 · 4 senses
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- 1adverb
From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards.
- 2adverb
From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin.
- 3adverb
From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line.
- 4adverb
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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