Usually means: Directed or moving toward inside.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. inward: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inward: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inward: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inward: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inward: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inward, inward: Wordnik
  7. inward: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inward: Wiktionary
  9. inward: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inward: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inward: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Inward, inward: Dictionary.com
  13. inward: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inward: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inward: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Inward: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. inward: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. inward: Rhymezone
  19. inward: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. inward: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. inward: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. inward: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. inward: Free Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inward: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inward: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See inwards as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Situated on the inside; that is within, inner; belonging to the inside.
adjective:  Not superficially obvious, inner, not expressed, especially relating to mental or spiritual faculties as opposed to external ones.
adjective:  Moving or tending toward the inside.
adjective:  (archaic, of a voice) Not directed toward the outside world, and thus quiet or indistinct.
adjective:  (obsolete) Internal to a particular place or country; not foreign, domestic.
adjective:  (obsolete) Secret, private, kept hidden.
adjective:  (obsolete) Coming from one’s inmost or sincerest feelings; heartfelt, earnest.
adjective:  (obsolete) Intimate, closely acquainted; familiar, close.
adjective:  (obsolete) Devoted to spiritual matters, pious, devout.
adjective:  (obsolete, of animals) Tame.
adjective:  (obsolete, of medicines) Internal; applied through the stomach by being swallowed.
adverb:  Towards the inside.
adverb:  Towards one’s mind, thoughts, or internal self.
adverb:  (obsolete) On the inside, within, inside.
adverb:  (obsolete) In one’s mind, thoughts, or internal self.
adverb:  (nautical) Towards home.
noun:  (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) That which is inward or within; the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera.
noun:  (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) The mental faculties or other characteristics not immediately apparent.
noun:  (obsolete) A familiar friend or acquaintance.

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