upwardly

up·ward

U0140200 (ŭp′wərd)adv. or up·wards (-wərdz)1. In, to, or toward a higher place, level, or position: flying upward.2. Toward a higher position in a hierarchy or on a socioeconomic scale: a young executive moving upward fast.3. Toward the head or upper parts: bare from the waist upward.4. Toward a higher amount, degree, or rank: Prices soared upward.5. Toward a later time or age: from adolescence upward.adj. Directed toward a higher place or position: upward movement.Idiom: upward/upwards of More than; in excess of: "the onslaught of upwards of seventy divisions" (Winston S. Churchill).

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up′ward·ly adv.

Thesaurus

Adv.

1.

upwardly - 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, upward, upwardsdown, downward, downwardly, downwards - spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward"

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