Synonyms for downwards
down·wards

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1. downwardsadverb

   Synonyms:
   downward, down

   Antonyms:
   upwards

2. downwardsadverb

   Towards a lower place; towards what is below.

   Gravity pulls everything downwards.

   Synonyms:
   down, downward

   Antonyms:
   upwards

3. downwardsadverb

   To a lower figure or amount.

   Synonyms:
   down, downward

   Antonyms:
   upwards

4. downwardsadverb

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

   After the oil price rises, the economy headed downwards

   Synonyms:
   downward, down

   Antonyms:
   upwards

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1. downwards

   Synonyms:
   below, beneath, adown

   Antonyms:
   upwards, aloft

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1. down, downwards, downward, downwardlyadverb

   spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

   "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward"

   Synonyms:
   down, downwardly, downward

   Antonyms:
   upwards, upwardly, upward, up

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1. downwardsadjective

   Synonyms:
   down, in a descending course

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1. List of paraphrases for "downwards":

   downward, down

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How to use downwards in a sentence?

1. Alvin Tan:

   We’ll get supportive statements on the growth outlook remaining decent and ... we’ll hear that policy options are still available if growth were to take a much more significant dip downwards, but despite the likely positive rhetoric, it’s going to be rhetoric. We just don’t see any substantive co-ordinated measures coming out of the G20.

2. Nick Ingrassia:

   Yearly reserve revisions are part-and-parcel of the business (both upwards and downwards) - so their absence alone may warrant further investigation.

3. Phin Ziebell:

   Notwithstanding day-to-day movements, the fundamental picture hasn't really changed, and that is one of supply outstripping demand growth for most of the year, it's an incessant march downwards, and it would be interesting to see where it bottoms out, but there doesn't seem to be any sign of it so far.

4. Ni'matullah Wali:

   The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downwards. Now by striking water and causing it to leap up, you may make it go.

5. Chris Reeve:

   It's far less clear a position than it was a year ago when the oil market had been clearly trending downwards.