 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
outward
adjective
1: relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or
the mind; "a concern with outward beauty rather than
with inward reflections" [ant: {inward}]
2: that is going out or leaving; "the departing train"; "an
outward journey"; "outward-bound ships" [syn: {departing(a)},
{outbound}, {outward-bound}]
adverb: toward the outside; "move the needle further outward!" [syn:
{outwards}] [ant: {inward}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Outward \Out"ward\, Outwards \Out"wards\, adverb [AS. [=u]teweard.
See {Out}, and {-ward}, {-wards}.]
From the interior part; in a direction from the interior
toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away;
as, a ship bound outward.
The wrong side may be turned outward. --Shak.
Light falling on them is not reflected outwards. --Sir
I. Newton.
{Outward bound}, bound in an outward direction or to foreign
parts; -- said especially of vessels, and opposed to
{homeward bound}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Outward \Out"ward\, adjective
1. Forming the superficial part; external; exterior; --
opposed to {inward}; as, an outward garment or layer.
Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is
renewed day by day. --Cor. iv. 16.
2. Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what is
external; manifest; public. ''Sins outward.'' --Chaucer.
An outward honor for an inward toil. --Shak.
3. Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war.
[Obs.] --Hayward.
4. Tending to the exterior or outside.
The fire will force its outward way. --Dryden.
-- {Out"ward*ly}, adverb -- {Out"ward*ness},
n.
{Outward stroke}. (Steam Engine) See under {Stroke}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Outward \Out"ward\, noun
External form; exterior. [R.]
So fair an outward and such stuff within. --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "outward":
apparent, apparently, appearing, bodily, carnal, conventionalized,
cortical, epidermic, evident, exomorphic, exterior, exteriorly,
external, externally, extraneous, extraorganismal, extrinsic,
false, fleshly, foreign, formal, formalist, formalistic, formulary,
forth, fringe, impersonal, legalistic, manifest, material, mundane,
nominal, nonsubjective, objective, observable, obvious,
on the outside, on the surface, open, openly, ostensible, out,
outer, outermost, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding,
outward-facing, outwardly, outwards, over, pedantic, peripheral,
physical, pretended, public, publically, roundabout, secular,
seeming, shallow, skin-deep, stylized, superficial, superficially,
surface, temporal, terrestrial, to all appearances, visible,
without, worldly
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