downwards - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
downwards (not comparable)
- Towards a lower place; towards what is below.
Gravity pulls everything downwards. - Towards something which is lower in order, smaller, inferior, etc.
After the rise in oil prices, the economy headed downwards.
- More common than downward as an adverb until 1890, according to Google NGrams. About half as common since 1920. After 2000, downward has become almost as common as downwards in the NGrams Brit. Eng. corpus, where c. 1880 it was one quarter as common.
- downward, down
- upwards, up
towards a lower place
- Dutch: benedenwaarts (nl)
- Faroese: oman, omaneftir, niður, niðureftir
- Finnish: alas (fi), alaspäin (fi)
- German: abwärts (de), nach unten, hinab (de), herab (de), hinunter (de), herunter (de)
- Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌸 (dalaþ)
- Greek:
Ancient Greek: κάτω (kátō) - Hebrew: מַטָּה (he) (matá), לְמַטָּה (l'matá), כְּלַפֵּי־מַטָּה (klapei matá)
- Hungarian: lefelé (hu)
- Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەرەونزم (berewnizm), بەرەوخوار (berewixwar) - Latin: deorsum (la)
- Old English: niþer
- Plautdietsch: rauf
- Russian: вниз (ru) (vniz)
- Slovene: dôl (sl)
- Spanish: hacia abajo
- Swedish: nedåt (sv)
- Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: آشاغی (aşağı)
downwards (comparative more downwards, superlative most downwards)