- Types Of Speech
- You can use upward as a adverb or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Upward
- A 2 syllables adverb and 6 letters with the letters a, d, p, r, u, and w, 4 consonants, 2 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letters wa. Upward starts with a vowel and ends in a consonant with the starting letters u, up, upw, upwa, upwar, and the ending characters are d, rd, ard, ward, pward, ..
- Definition
- Directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen"
- Origin/Roots
- Old English
- Scrabble
- Is upward a scrabble word? A 12 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Upward in Pig Latin is said as "upwarday or upwardway".
- Unigram
- u | p | w | a | r | d
- Bigram
- up | pw | wa | ar | rd
- Trigram
- upw | pwa | war | ard
- Quadrigram
- upwa | pwar | ward
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- directed up;
"the cards were face upward";
"an upward stroke of the pen"
- Adverb Examples
- 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" - to a later time;
"they moved the meeting date up";
"from childhood upward"
Synonym | Definition |
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Above | appearing earlier in the same text "flaws in the above interpretation" |
Abovestairs | |
Airward | |
Aloft | in the higher atmosphere above the earth "weather conditions aloft are fine" |
Aloof | remote in manner "stood apart with aloof dignity" "a distant smile" "he was upstage with strangers" |
Anabatic | of an air current or wind rising especially up a slope "an anabatic wind" |
Ancestor | someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) |
Antecedent | the referent of an anaphor a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun |
Approaching | the act of drawing spatially closer to something "the hunter''s approach scattered the geese" |
Ascendant | someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) |
View all cognitive synonyms for Upward
Anagram | Definition |
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Upward | directed up "the cards were face upward" "an upward stroke of the pen" |
View English words with the unique letters used in upward. Words With The Letters Adpruw
Similar Word | Definition |
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Up | raise; "up the ante" |
Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
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Draw Up (7 letters) | |||||
Upward (6 letters) | 12 | 14 | upward |
Upward Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With U
- Ends With D
- Spelled With / Contains Letters