Crossword clues for outward
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outward \Out"ward\, Outwards \Out"wards\, adv. [AS. [=u]teweard. See Out, and -ward, -wards.] 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.
Outward \Out"ward\, n. External form; exterior. [R.]
So fair an outward and such stuff within.
--Shak.
Outward \Out"ward\, a.
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Forming the superficial part; external; exterior; -- opposed to inward; as, an outward garment or layer.
Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
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Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what is external; manifest; public. ``Sins outward.''
--Chaucer.An outward honor for an inward toil.
--Shak. Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war. [Obs.]
--Hayward.-
Tending to the exterior or outside.
The fire will force its outward way.
--Dryden. [1913 Webster] -- Out"ward*ly, adv. -- Out"ward*ness, n.Outward stroke. (Steam Engine) See under Stroke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English utweard "toward the outside, external" (of an enclosure, surface, etc.), earlier utanweard, from ute, utan "outside" (from ut; see out) + -weard (see -ward). Of persons, in reference to the external appearance (usually opposed to inner feelings), it is attested from c.1500. Also as an adverb in Old English (utaword). Outward-bound "directed on a course out from home port" is first recorded c.1600; with capital initials, it refers to a sea school founded in 1941. Related: Outwardly; outwardness.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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1 outer; located towards the outside 2 visible, noticeable 3 Tending to the exterior or outside. 4 (context obsolete English) Foreign; not civil or intestine. adv. 1 towards the outside; away from the centre. (from 10thc.) 2 (context obsolete English) outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly. (14th-17thc.) Etymology 2
v
(context obsolete rare English) To ward off; to keep out.
WordNet
adj. relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind; "a concern with outward beauty rather than with inward reflections" [ant: inward]
that is going out or leaving; "the departing train"; "an outward journey"; "outward-bound ships" [syn: departing(a), outbound, outward-bound]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "outward".
At this time also I felt some weakness to seize upon my outward man, which made still the other affliction the more heavy and uncomfortable to me.
Was all his arrogance and affluence only an outward sign of an inner affliction?
They were both partially blind in their two anterior eyes, possibly from looking outward and obliquely.
If instead of moving outward it remained with the First, it would be no more than some appurtenance of that First, not a self-standing existent.
It could have hair, and eyes, and a voice, and all the features and appurtenances of a human being, so that it would, as far as outward appearance is concerned, be indistinguishable from a human being.
A trifle pale, but that may have been the effect of her black clothing, rigid from the waist up, her shoes turned outward as befits a ballet dancer, she carried her school satchel -- which was brown, of artificial leather -- to school and her leek-green, dawn-red, and air-blue gym bags, dyed black, to Oliva or to the theater, and returned punctually and pigeon-toed, more well behaved than rebellious, to Elsenstrasse.
This stairway forked at the top, a small flight leading to the door of an entrance into the cave dwelling, while two or three steps branched outward to a ledge skirting the stone balustrade of the balcony.
The contents of the structure buried Blanco before he could get clear, flooding outward and carrying him partway across the floor.
Known as a hoarding or brattice, this structure provided a roof over the battlements to protect defenders from missiles, and often projected outwards from the walls to allow defenders to drop missiles on attackers below.
The mushrooms, the fetishes, the wool and the wine, the mascara jars, the poppies, the crickets, the poison arrows, the bravura helixes of juicy smoke all spun like the stars: onward, outward, inward, backward, sideways, upside down, and forever.
In the latter case, water charged with excrementitious and decaying matter would be slowly forced outwards, and would bathe the quadrifids, if I am right in believing that the concave lobes contract after a time like those of Dionaea.
Caesar used it as it was meant to be used, held at groin level with its blade a hypotenuse and its wicked point upward, outward.
The more this microcosm contains reflections or points of reference to the macrocosm - both the inward and the outward universes - then the higher is the potential consciousness, awareness or intelligence of the creature.
Other bottles filled with magnetized water tightly corked up were laid in divergent rows with their necks turned outwards.
They thrust outward from the ship, pulling webs of malleable hull tissue within their loops to form a chaotic array of cooling fins, until Null Boundary resembled some manic crystal tree, leaved in a jumble of glassy planes.