[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

downward \down"ward\, downwards \down"wards\, adv. as.
   ad?nweard. see down, adv., and -ward.
   1. from a higher place to a lower; in a descending course;
      as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or
      downwards. "looking downwards." --pope.
      1913 webster

            their heads they downward bent.       --drayton.
      1913 webster

   2. from a higher to a lower condition; toward misery,
      humility, disgrace, or ruin.
      1913 webster

            and downward fell into a groveling swine. --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. from a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from
      one to another in a descending line.
      1913 webster

            a ring the county wears,
            that downward hath descended in his house,
            from son to son, some four or five descents. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
down -ward 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

downwards
     adv : 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" syn: down, downward,
            downwardly ant: up, up, up, up
see also:
down downward downwardly up 

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