upward :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

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Adverbs (2)

adv. spatially, temporally, or metaphorically up :"Look up!" "Let's move the date up"; "The music surged up"

Adjectives (3)

adj. "the cards were face up"; "he lay face up"

adj. extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish"

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Synonyms (21)

adj. having the leading position or higher score in a contest; "he is ahead by a pawn"; "the leading team in the pennant race"

adj. (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom; "anchors aweigh"

adj. "he was up on his homework"; "up on the news"

adj. (of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon; "the risen sun"

adj. directed toward heaven or the sky; "the soul in its heavenward flight"

adj. (of growing vegetation) having just emerged from the ground; "the corn is sprouted"

adj. sloping upward

adj. tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin

adj. growing or extending upward; "an assurgent stem or leaf"

adj. rising from the sea; "a seahorse assurgent"

adj. used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb; "plants of a creeping or scandent nature"

adj. "a soaring eagle"

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