upward

Other forms of upward

comparative

upwarder·

superlative

upwardest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about upward

What does upward mean?

upward means "directed up". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in upward?

upward has 2 syllables: up-ward. The stress falls on "up". In IPA it is /ˈʌpwɚd/.

What is another word for upward?

Close synonyms include up, up, upwards, upwardly, up. 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 upward?

The recorded antonyms are downward.

Is upward a common word?

upward is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.