Synonyms for downwards
down·wards

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1. downwardsadverb

   Synonyms:
   downward, down

   Antonyms:
   upwards

2. downwardsadverb

   Towards a lower place; towards what is below.

   Gravity pulls everything downwards.

   Synonyms:
   down, downward

   Antonyms:
   upwards

3. downwardsadverb

   To a lower figure or amount.

   Synonyms:
   down, downward

   Antonyms:
   upwards

4. downwardsadverb

   Towards something which is lower in order, smaller, inferior etc.

   After the oil price rises, the economy headed downwards

   Synonyms:
   downward, down

   Antonyms:
   upwards

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1. downwards

   Synonyms:
   below, beneath, adown

   Antonyms:
   upwards, aloft

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1. down, downwards, downward, downwardlyadverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   down, downwardly, downward

   Antonyms:
   upwards, upwardly, upward, up

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1. downwardsadjective

   Synonyms:
   down, in a descending course

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1. List of paraphrases for "downwards":

   downward, down

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1. Ni'matullah Wali:

   The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downwards. Now by striking water and causing it to leap up, you may make it go.

2. James Brown:

   Education laws change slowly, and change goes both ‘upwards’ from local school districts up to state and federal government and downwards to people like principals and superintendents.

3. Anand Menon:

   If there is no-deal then there is a real danger of both sides spiraling downwards and blaming one another, possibly ending in a nasty standoff, we saw during the early days of the pandemic the UK's reluctance to work with the EU in key areas. How bad could that get if talks end in October, then the virus surges in November?

4. Nick Haddad:

   We found the results surprising and frightening, the signs are all still downwards.

5. James Chao:

   This is a permanent move downwards in pricing, there are few signs of the trend letting up.