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downwards

adv
/ˈdaʊnwədz/UK/ˈdaʊnwɚdz/US

Etymology

From down + -wards.

  1. derived from *dʰewh₂-✻
  2. derived from *dūnom✻
  3. derived from *dʰewh₂-✻ — “smoke, haze, dust”
  4. inherited from *dūnaz✻
  5. inherited from *dūnā✻ — “sandhill, dune”
  6. inherited from dūn
  7. inherited from doune
  8. suffixed as downwards — “down + wards”

Definitions

  1. Towards a lower place

    Towards a lower place; towards what is below.

    • Gravity pulls everything downwards.

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

    • After the rise in oil prices, the economy headed downwards.

  3. Downward.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at downwards. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at downwards. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at downwards

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA