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inward

inward

4 2.7
Moving toward the inside or center
  • adjective
  • /ˈɪnwərd/
translation icon : hacia el interior
  • It's accelerating inwards all the time.
  • inward-looking
  • inward investment
  • inward movement

Examples

  • Place your thumb, push it inward and slowly work into your crease.

  • I think it ties directly back to the inward focus of many of the improvement methodologies.

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  • So the process of going inward does it for you.

  • I am going to make a line going inward and then go back.

  • It's really about going inward, this kind of trust let go.

  • It's just a matter of going inward doing that work.

  • And I want to do this because I want you to turn inward in this time.

  • And so he says what we have here is the inward motion of the pure heart.

  • Are you going to turn inward and just give in to despair and frustration?

  • The bubbles burst as they were pushed inward to collapse on each other.

Synonyms

inbound
vsinward
24 3.3

Moving toward a place like a city or station

is general movement toward the inside not limited to places
ingoing
vsinward
6.0

Moving into a place or area

is identical in meaning but is a less common form
inward-moving
vsinward
6.3

Moving toward the center when turning or spinning

is a general movement toward the inside without spinning or curving emphasis

Antonyms

41 1.5

Toward the outside or away from the centre

Compounds

inward-developing
  • Specialized
7.9

Growing toward the centre so the youngest parts are in the middle

Surface Forms

inward positive

Morphology

inward = (transparent) = in + ward

This is a regular directional adjective formed from 'in' plus '-ward', meaning 'directed toward the inside'. [Postprocessing: moved 'in' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Inward is made of in- ('in') and -ward ('toward'), just like toward and forward, and it describes movement 'toward' the centre or inside. So an inward movement is one that goes to the centre or into something.