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

upward \up"ward\, n.
   the upper part; the top. obs.
   1913 webster

         from the extremest upward of thy head.   --shak.
   1913 webster

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

upward \up"ward\, upwards \up"wards\, adv. as. upweardes. see
   up-, and -wards.
   1913 webster
   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.
      1913 webster

            looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking
            upward, we speak and prevail.         --hooker.
      1913 webster

   2. in the upper parts; above.
      1913 webster

            dagon his name, sea monster, upward man,
            and down ward fish.                   --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
      1913 webster

            from twenty years old and upward.     --num. i. 3.
      1913 webster

   upward of, or upwards of, more than; above.
      1913 webster

            i have been your wife in this obedience
            upward of twenty years.               --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
up- -wards upward of upwards of 

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

upward \up"ward\, a. as. upweard. see up, and -ward.
   directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with
   upward course.
   1913 webster
see also:
up -ward 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

upward
     adj 1: directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke
            of the pen"
     2: extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up
        staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish" syn: upa,
         upwarda
     adv 1: 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" syn: up, upwards, upwardly
            ant: down, down, down, down
     2: to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from
        childhood upward" syn: up, upwards
see also:
upa upwarda up upwards upwardly down 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

89 moby thesaurus words for "upward":
   above, abovestairs, airward, aloft, aloof, anabatic, ascendant,
   ascending, ascensional, ascensive, axial, back, back-flowing,
   backward, climbing, descending, down-trending, downward, drifting,
   flowing, fluent, flying, going, gyrational, gyratory, heavenward,
   high, high up, in the air, in the ascendant, in the clouds,
   leaping, mounting, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe,
   over, overhead, passing, plunging, progressive, rampant, rearing,
   reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary,
   rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, saltatory, scandent,
   scansorial, sideward, sinking, skyrocketing, skyward, soaring,
   spiraling, springing, straight up, streaming, tiptoe,
   to the zenith, up, up attic, up north, up steps, up-trending,
   upalong, uparching, upcoming, upgoing, upgrade, uphill, uphillward,
   uplong, uprising, upsloping, upstairs, upstream, upstreamward,
   uptown, upwards, upwith

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