Definition of Downwards

Downwards

From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards.

From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin.

From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line.

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Downwards Quotations

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
John Locke

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
Keith Richards

I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.
Tom Glazer

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
Chauncey Wright

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.
William Whewell

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Downwards Translations

downwards in French is contrebas
downwards in Italian is abbasso
downwards in Latin is deorsum
downwards in Norwegian is nedover

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