Meaning & Definition of Upward in English

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"

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"

2. To a later time

• "They moved the meeting date up"

• "From childhood upward"