Antonyms for upwardsup·wards

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1. up, upwards, upward, upwardlyadverb

   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"

   Antonyms:
   down, downwardly, downwards, downward

   Synonyms:
   up, upwardly, upward

2. up, upwards, upwardadverb

   to a later time

   "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"

   Antonyms:
   downward, down, downwardly, downwards

   Synonyms:
   up, upwardly, upward

How to use upwards in a sentence?

1. Mark Spellman:

   Upwards of 40 percent of what they do now is non-US business. And that's the highest percentage of any defense contractor.

2. Debra Birnbaum:

   There are upwards of 400 scripted series on air right now, so there is a tremendous amount of competition, people are coming in and re-inventing the form, and there is no such thing as' this is only way we can do it'.

3. President Obama:

   The purpose of legal immigration should be to grow the economy, not displace American workers, under no circumstances should legal immigration levels be adjusted upwards so long as work-force participation rates remain below historical levels.

4. Parliament Damian Collins:

   In a leaked letter received by the Al Bilad newspaper it was claimed that Sheikh Salman had spent upwards of 850,000 dinars( 1.6 million GBP) on Sheikh Salman campaign and that some of Sheikh Salman money had come from FIFA financed football development projects.

5. Robert Lunsford:

   The radiant is expected to be a large area of the sky and not a pinpoint. So any slow meteor from this general area of the sky can be expected to be from SW3, you need not look directly overhead as meteors may appear in any portion of the sky. They are actually more likely to appear at lower elevations in the sky since at these elevations one is looking through a far thicker slice of the atmosphere that when looking straight upwards.

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