inward
- adjective
- /ˈɪnwərd/
- It's accelerating inwards all the time.
- inward-looking
- inward investment
- inward movement
Examples
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Place your thumb, push it inward and slowly work into your crease.
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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.
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I am going to make a line going inward and then go back.
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It's really about going inward, this kind of trust let go.
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It's just a matter of going inward doing that work.
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And I want to do this because I want you to turn inward in this time.
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And so he says what we have here is the inward motion of the pure heart.
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Are you going to turn inward and just give in to despair and frustration?
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The bubbles burst as they were pushed inward to collapse on each other.
Synonyms
Moving toward a place like a city or station
Moving toward the center when turning or spinning
Antonyms
Compounds
Surface Forms
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.