Usually means: Direction away from Earth's center.
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  10. upward: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  16. Upward: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Upward: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. upward: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Upward)

▸ adverb:  In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin.
▸ adverb:  In the upper parts; above.
▸ adverb:  Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) The upper part; the top.
▸ adjective:  Directed toward a higher place.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
up, ascending, downward, skyward, outward, southward, northward, Downard, inward, eastward, more...

Opposite:
downward, descending, falling, sinking, lowering

Types:
vertical, upwards, up, upwardly, more...

Phrases:
upward mobility, upward of, upward sloping, Upward communication, upward spiral, more...

Adjectives:
best, looking, high, cip, heading, old, further, more, fracture, poor, relative

Colors:
    sky blue,     light green,     gold,     silver,     white, more...


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Similar:
up, ascending, downward, skyward, outward, southward, northward, Downard, inward, eastward, more...

Opposite:
downward, descending, falling, sinking, lowering

Types:
vertical, upwards, up, upwardly, more...

Phrases:
upward mobility, upward of, upward sloping, Upward communication, upward spiral, upward compatibility, upward compatible, upward continuation, onward and upward, upward closure, Upward Bound, haul upward, more...

Adjectives:
best, looking, high, cip, heading, old, further, more, fracture, poor, relative

Colors:
    sky blue,     light green,     gold,     silver,     white, more...



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