Antonyms for downwardsdown·wards

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1. downwardsadverb

   Antonyms:
   upwards

   Synonyms:
   downward, down

2. downwardsadverb

   Towards a lower place; towards what is below.

   Gravity pulls everything downwards.

   Antonyms:
   upwards

   Synonyms:
   down, downward

3. downwardsadverb

   To a lower figure or amount.

   Antonyms:
   upwards

   Synonyms:
   down, downward

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

   Antonyms:
   upwards, aloft

   Synonyms:
   below, beneath, adown

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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"

   Antonyms:
   upwards, upwardly, upward, up

   Synonyms:
   down, downwardly, downward

How to use downwards in a sentence?

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. Karsten Engel:

   What we do see is the trend downwards, On pricing...We have to be competitive in the market.

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. Zhang Dawei:

   Overall, the ‘bottom’ of real estate policies has emerged, but the market is still adjusting downwards, policies will become more and more relaxed, and the market is expected to gradually stabilise, as the purpose of regulations is to stabilise the market, with it neither sharply rising or decline.

5. Phin Ziebell:

   Notwithstanding day-to-day movements, the fundamental picture hasn't really changed, and that is one of supply outstripping demand growth for most of the year, it's an incessant march downwards, and it would be interesting to see where it bottoms out, but there doesn't seem to be any sign of it so far.

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