What does downwardly mean?

downwardly means "spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position".

How many syllables are in downwardly?

downwardly has 3 syllables: down-ward-ly. The stress falls on "down". In IPA it is /ˈdaʊnwɚdli/.

What is another word for downwardly?

Close synonyms include down, downwards, downward. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of downwardly?

The recorded antonyms are upwardly.

Is downwardly a common word?

downwardly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Downwardly — meaning, pronunciation and syllables

adverb

1 senseA word that modifies a verb, adjective or other adverb.

1.
spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
“don't fall down”
“rode the lift up and skied down”
“prices plunged downward”
Synonymsdown downwards downward
Antonymsupwardly

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What does downwardly mean?: downwardly means "spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position".
How many syllables are in downwardly?

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