downwardly
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- adverb
- /ˈdaʊnˌwɜrdli/
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- Participants who were always poor had the highest prevalence of unsound teeth; those who were downwardly or upwardly mobile also had more unsound teeth than did other participants, after adjustment for confounders.
- downwardly mobile
Partly from my mother, I think judging me as, you know, a failure or not, you know, downwardly mobile that was struggling with my own desire to be my own guy.
- Partly from my mother, I think judging me as, you know, a failure or not, you know, downwardly mobile that was struggling with my own desire to be my own guy.
Examples
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Mattski 3:04: 'Downwardly mobile by choice' isn't quite the right term because it implies that it is all about money.
Blog text (27) -
It attracts people who are downwardly mobile, often cantankerous, and ill at ease in polite society.
Academic text (1994) -
How many 'downwardly mobile by choice' people do you know?
Blog text (27) -
The downwardly mobile campus could also offer graduate degrees in education.
Academic text (2001) -
Those at the top can take comfort from knowing that their chances of becoming downwardly mobile are lower in America than they are elsewhere.
Blog text (21) -
Given the lower status of Burmese or Laotian migrants, primary sector labor by association becomes downwardly positioned in labor hierarchies.
Academic text (2017) -
To test the critical period hypothesis, we grouped the always poor and upwardly mobile cohort members into a new category, poor at birth, and then compared it with those who were not poor at birth (the combined never poor and downwardly mobile groups).
Academic text (2011) -
Schiller's evidence comes strictly from New York City, and he argues that a downwardly mobile artisan class was the audience for the penny papers, which snatched workers' issues from the working-class press.
Academic text (1991) -
The always poor group had the highest prevalence ratio, but the downwardly mobile and upwardly mobile groups also had higher numbers of unsound teeth, regardless of gender, pattern of dental attendance, dental calculus, or skin color.
Academic text (2011) -
Many people fear becoming downwardly mobile and losing their financial stability.
Synonyms
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At a lower level or amount than before
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Toward a lower place or level
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Toward a lower place, level, or position
Into a place that is lower down
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
downwardly = downward (transparent) = down + ward + ly
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the clearly directional adjective 'downward', yielding manner/direction.
Etymology
Downwardly is made from the simple word down, the ending -ward which means 'toward', and -ly which turns the word into an adverb. So downwardly means moving or happening 'from higher to lower'.