downward

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈdaʊnwəd/    美 /ˈdaʊnwɚd/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Moving, sloping or oriented down. not-comparable
    — He spoke with a downward glance.
  2. Located at a lower level. not-comparable
    — In her chast Current oft the Goddess laves, And with Celestial Tears augments the Waves. Oft in her Glass the musing Shepherd spies The headlong Mountains and the downward Skies, The watry Landskip of the pendant Woods, And absent Trees that tremble in the Floods;
副词 adv.
  1. Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value. not-comparable
    — His position in society moved ever downward.
  2. At a lower level. not-comparable
    — Dagon his Name, Sea Monster, upward Man / And downward Fish […]
  3. Southward. not-comparable
    — If we turn to the New World, we find that among the American Indians, from the Eskimo of Alaska downward to Brazil and still farther south, homosexual customs have been very frequently observed.

词汇关系

近义词
down downwards
反义词
up upwards
衍生词
downwardly downwardness nondownward downward dog downward drift downward-facing dog downward spiral

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English down
Proto-Indo-European *wert-der.
Proto-Germanic *wardaz
Old English -weard
English -ward
English downward
From down + -ward.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English down
Proto-Indo-European *wert-der.
Proto-Germanic *wardaz
Old English -weard
English -ward
English downward
From down + -ward.
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