southwards

1. 1.

   toward the south

   “the ship turned southerly”

   Synonymssoutherlysouthward

Questions about southwards

What does southwards mean?

southwards means "toward the south".

How many syllables are in southwards?

southwards has 2 syllables: south-wards. The stress falls on "south".

What is another word for southwards?

Close synonyms include southerly, southward. 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.

Is southwards a common word?

southwards 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.