outwards
outwards is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.From the interior part; in a direction from the interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away; as, a ship bound outward. The wrong side may be turned outward. Shak. Light falling on them is not reflected outwards. Sir I. Newton. Outward bound, bound in an outward direction or to foreign parts; -- said especially of vessels, and opposed to homeward bound.
- 2.See Outward, adv.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- about
- air
- around
- belle
- circumjacence
- covering
- disc
- discoid
- disk
- eccentric
- eccentricity
- etoile
- excentric
- excentricity
- exterior
- exteriority
- exteriorly
- external
- externally
- extra
- extrados
- extralimitary
- extramundane
- extramural
- extrinsic
- face
- facet
- fresco
- frontal
- lie
- most
- open
- out
- outdoor
- outer
- outlying
- outside
- outstanding
- outward
- over
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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