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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Upward \Up"ward\, adjective [AS. upweard. See {Up}, and {-ward}.] Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Upward \Up"ward\, noun The upper part; the top. [Obs.]
From the extremest upward of thy head. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Upward \Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adverb [AS. upweardes. See {Up-}, and {-wards}.]
1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. --I. Watts.
Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. --Hooker.
2. In the upper parts; above.
Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. --Milton.
3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
From twenty years old and upward. --Num. i. 3.
{Upward of}, or {Upwards of}, more than; above.
I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
upward
adjective
1: directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen"
2: extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish" [syn: {up(a)}, {upward(a)}]
adverb
1: spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile" [syn: {up}, {upwards}, {upwardly}] [ant: {down}, {down}, {down}, {down}]
2: to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward" [syn: {up}, {upwards}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "upward": above, abovestairs, airward, aloft, aloof, anabatic, ascendant, ascending, ascensional, ascensive, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, climbing, descending, down-trending, downward, drifting, flowing, fluent, flying, going, gyrational, gyratory, heavenward, high, high up, in the air, in the ascendant, in the clouds, leaping, mounting, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe, over, overhead, passing, plunging, progressive, rampant, rearing, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, saltatory, scandent, scansorial, sideward, sinking, skyrocketing, skyward, soaring, spiraling, springing, straight up, streaming, tiptoe, to the zenith, up, up attic, up north, up steps, up-trending, upalong, uparching, upcoming, upgoing, upgrade, uphill, uphillward, uplong, uprising, upsloping, upstairs, upstream, upstreamward, uptown, upwards, upwith
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