say it: UHP-wurd-lee
upwardly is an adverb meaning "spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for upwardly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.