UPWARDS

up, upwards, upward, upwardly

(adverb) 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”

up, upwards, upward

(adverb) to a later time; “they moved the meeting date up”; “from childhood upward”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adverb

upwards (comparative more upwards, superlative most upwards)

Towards a higher place; towards what is above.

To a higher figure or amount.

Towards something which is higher in order, larger, superior etc.

Backwards in time, into the past.

To or into later life.

Synonyms

• upward, up

Antonyms

• downward, down

Anagrams

• draw-ups, draws up, updraws

Source: Wiktionary

Up"ward, Up"wards, adv. Etym: [AS. upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.]

1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker.

2. In the upper parts; above. Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. Milton.

3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over. From twenty years old and upward. Num. i. 3. Upward of, or Upwards of, more than; above. I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition