Upwards

Definition: Upwards

Upwards

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".

2. To a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "upwards" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Upwards

Ascent

Go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off; spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards; hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge; leap.

Height

Over, upwards; from top to bottom; (completely).

Impulse

As usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards; more suo, more solito; ex more.

Inversion

Adjective: inverted; Verb: wrong side out, wrong side up; inside out, upside down; bottom upwards, keel upwards; supine, on one's head, topsy-turvy, sens dessus dessous.

Plurality

Adjective: plural, more than one, upwards of; some, several, a few; certain; not alone.

Superiority

Adverb: beyond, more, over; over the mark, above the mark; above par; upwards of, in advance of; over and above; at the top of the scale, at its height.

Crosswords: Upwards

In Hollywood you just fail upwards. (Evening with Kevin Smith, An; writing credit: Bayley Silleck; Alan Ternes)

A neat, clean, professional hit, upwards of ten grand (Stingray; writing credit: Gary DeVore; Jimmy Huston)

Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the meaning of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space (Forbidden Planet; writing credit: Irving Block; Allen Adler)

You have killed upwards of thirty men and I shoot as good as you do (The Shootist; writing credit: Scott Hale)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants to Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776 (reference)

• A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Greek Words and Phrases Used in the Art and (reference)

• Blood flies upwards (reference)

• Complete Glossary to the Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns: With Upwards of Three Thousand Illustrations from English Authors. (reference)

• Managing Upwards (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Upwards at 66 Degrees N. (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Nevertheless, and in spite of the fact that the tonnage of German shipping at present in existence is much less than that lost by the Allied and Associated Powers in consequence of the German aggression, the right thus recognised will be enforced on German ships and boats under the following conditions: The German Government, on behalf of themselves and so as to bind all other persons interested, cede to the Allied and Associated Governments the property in all the German merchant ships which are of 1,600 tons gross and upwards; in one-half, reckoned in tonnage, of the ships which are between 1,000 tons and 1,600 tons gross; in one-quarter, reckoned in tonnage, of the steam trawlers; and in one-quarter, reckoned in tonnage, of the other fishing boats. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A perfect innocence almost borne upwards in a mysterious Assumption, clinging still to Earth through virtue, already touching Heaven through holiness

A faint marshlight struggled upwards from all the ordure through the bristling greygreen weeds

Pa bent it upwards, stood it sides up, so that the arch covered Tom.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Therefore, muscle weakness and tingling sensations usually first appear in the hands and feet and progress upwards. (references)

Business

Total investment requirements are estimated at upwards of $ 122 million. (references)

Over the years, these and other KDIA affiliated companies have chipped away at the U.S. dominance in the defense industry and by the end of 1998, claimed upwards of 30% of all defense materiel manufactured in Korea. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

More significantly, upwards of $125 million is reinvested annually by local pharmaceutical firms. (references)

Ireland

Future market potential remains strong as the age profile of the Irish population edges upwards over the next decade. (references)

Kenya

The country's annual expenditure for transmission lines and sub-station investment will, therefore, trend upwards over time. (references)

Human Rights

Korea

In October 2000, similar celebrations of the 55th anniversary of the KWP reportedly involved upwards of 1 million persons. (references)

Political Economy

Bhutan

According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as of mid-June 2000, 98,269 ethnic Nepalese remained in 7 refugee camps in eastern Nepal; upwards of 15,000 reside outside of the camps in the Indian states of Assam and West Bengal. (references)

POLAND

Previously, Poland had annually imported upwards of 300,000 tons of MBM valued at $100 million, virtually all from the EU. Poland refused to permit imports of U.S. MBM as an alternative, despite the fact that the United States has no reported cases of BSE, unless U.S. MBM undergoes more costly heat and pressure treatments outlined in European Commission decision 96/449/EC. (references)

Trade

Korea

In response to the 1997-98 financial crisis, the Korean government closed or merged scores of insolvent banks and financial institutions; by 2001 had injected upwards of $119 billion into the banking system, with plans to spend $22 billion more; set up the Korean Asset Management Corporation (KAMCO) to dispose of non-performing assets; required banks to raise their capital adequacy ratios to the BIS standard of 8%; introduced strengthened asset classification standards for banks; and imposed "forward-looking" criteria (FLC) to force the banks to provision adequately for non-performing loans, among other reforms. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "upwards": directed upwards ♦ follow the stream upwards ♦ from my youth upwards ♦ look upwards ♦ soar upwards ♦ strive upwards ♦ two cones,point upwards ♦ upwards grade ♦ upwards of ♦ upwards of twenty ♦ wind upwards. Additional references.

Beginning with "upwards": upwards-and-downwards, upwards-facing, upwards-sloping.

Ending with "upwards": belly-upwards, bottom-upwards, face-upwards, palm-upwards, tip-upwards.

Albanian

përpjetë (jerk, uphill, upward), lart (above, aloft, high, overhead, up, upstairs, upward), e tutje. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فصاعدا (forth), ‏تقريبا (about, all but, almost, most, near, nearly, quasi, roughly, somewhere, thereabouts, upward, well nigh). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нанагоре (uphill, upward), по-нагоре (up, upstairs, upward), по-нависоко. (various references)

Chinese 

向上地 (up, upward), 向上 (upturn, upturned, upward). (various references)

Czech

vzhùru (aloft, astir, up, upward), více (more, upward), nahoru (above, up, uphill, upstairs, upward), nahoře (above, aloft, on high, overhead, up, upstairs, upward). (various references)

Danish

opad (above, up). (various references)

Dutch

naar boven (above, up, uphill), opwaarts (above, up, uphill), op (above, according as, according to, as, at, by, exhausted, for, from, in, inside, into, on, out of, owing to, per, spent, through, to, toward, towards, up, uphill, upon, used up, within, worn, write down), omhoog (above, on top, overhead, up, uphill, upstairs). (various references)

Esperanto

supren (above, up, uphill). (various references)

Faeroese

upp (above, up, uphill). (various references)

Finnish

ylöspäin, ylös (up). (various references)

French

vers le haut (uphill). (various references)

German

aufwärts (above, up, uphill, upward, upwardly), nach oben (above, up, uphill, upstairs, upward, upwardly). (various references)

Greek 

προς τα πάνω (uphill). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממעל (above, aloft, overhead, upon, upward), למעלה (above, aloft, before, beyond, on top, supra, up, up ward, upward), אל על (ad astra, aloft, up, upward), כלפי מעלה (upper, upward). (various references)

Hungarian

túl (above all, across, beyond, excess, luscious, over, past, past bearing, premature, skittish, to be rising forty, to overstay, too), felfelé (aloft, up, up the line), felül (above, high, over, overhead, to get on, to mount, uppermost). (various references)

Italian

verso l'alto (upward), sù (above, at the top, overhead, top, up, up above, upstairs). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

掻き上げる (to comb upwards). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かきあげる (to comb upwards, to finish writing, to shoulder, to write out or down). (various references)

Korean 

위쪽으로 (skyward, skywards, upward). (various references)

Manx

ughtee (bluff, bluff of coast, sheer, sloping upwards). (various references)

Norwegian

hit (above, here, up, uphill). (various references)

Papiamen

ariba (above, on, on top, over, overhead, up, uphill, upon, upstairs). (various references)

Pig Latin

ardsupway.(various references)

Polish

w górę (above, up, uphill), do góry (above, up, uphill). (various references)

Portuguese

para cima (up, uppermost, upstair, upward). (various references)

Romanian

spre partea superioarã, şi chiar mai mult, în sus (aloft, on high, up, uphill, upward). (various references)

Russian 

вверх (endways, endwise, up, upstair, upward, upwardly). (various references)

Scottish

suas (above, up, uphill), nàird , a nàird. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uz (along, hereby, up, with), naviše, nagore (up, upward, worse). (various references)

Spanish

hacia arriba (up, upward). (various references)

Swedish

uppåt (above, in high spirits, up, up to, uphill, upon, upward, upwardly). (various references)

Turkish

yukarıya (aloft, overhead, up, uphill, upward), yukarı (high, up, upward), itibaren (as from, from, upward), daha fazla (anymore, further, more, upward, upward of, upwards of). (various references)

Ukrainian

угору (skyward, skywards, up, upgrade, uppermost, upward), більше (a sight more, better, more, o'er, over, upward). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lên (ascensional, rise, risen, upward), hướng lên (upward), đi lên (upward). (various references)

Welsh

i fyny (aloft, up). (various references)

super, superque, sursum. (various references)

Misspellings

"Upwards" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Numwords. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: purdas, upward.

-2 letters: draws, duras, pards, praus, purda, supra, sward, wards, warps, wraps.

-3 letters: daps, daws, draw, dups, dura, pads, pard, pars, paws, prau, puds, purs, rads, raps, rasp, raws, sard, spar, spud, spur, sura, surd, swap, upas, urds, ursa, wads, waps, ward, warp, wars, wasp, waur, wrap.

-4 letters: ads, ars, asp, dap, daw.

+3 letters: upwardness.

+4 letters: wraparounds.

+5 letters: upwardnesses.