Antonyms for earthward


Grammar : Adj
Spell : urth-werd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɜrθ wərd


Definition of earthward

  • As in down : adj below; physically lower
Example sentences :
  • You cannot conceive it; it could not be done, the earthward hold is so strong.
  • Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael
  • One of her training too—suspended in mid air—not an earthward glance.
  • Extract from : « The Daughters of Danaus » by Mona Caird
  • In another moment a score of willing hands were tugging it earthward.
  • Extract from : « The War in the Air » by Herbert George Wells
  • There is light, even from the earthward side, upon this dark river, love!
  • Extract from : « Jessamine » by Marion Harland
  • Can woman with her immortality be happy when its drawings are all earthward?
  • Extract from : « Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale » by Ida Glenwood
  • We had partly circled the Moon so as now to approach it from the Earthward side.
  • Extract from : « Brigands of the Moon » by Ray Cummings
  • Thus "earthward," and not heavenward, "all things" in the family of the drunkard have a tendency.
  • Extract from : « Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders » by William A. Alcott
  • The monk's watery eyes were rolled upward in pious disapproval, before he turned them earthward with a sigh of resignation.
  • Extract from : « The Ward of King Canute » by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
  • It was no desire for a purer justice or wiser laws that hurried Ithuriel earthward.
  • Extract from : « The Revolt of the Angels » by Anatole France
  • Aiming it toward the stars, opposite earth, its reactive blasts shoved me Earthward, thanks to Newton.
  • Extract from : « Shipwreck in the Sky » by Eando Binder

Synonyms for earthward

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