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seawards

seawards

4.2
Toward the sea
  • adverb
  • /ˈsiːwərdz/
translation icon : hacia el mar
  • The yacht sailed seawards as the sun began to set on the horizon.

Examples

  • During the storm, the boat drifted seawards, away from the safety of the harbor.

  • We watched the waves crash against the rocks as we walked seawards along the beach.

  • An intangible mooring, something to do with Trace, was the only thing that kept the vessel of her life from going seawards forever.

    Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

seaward
vsseawards
1 3.2

Toward the sea

has identical meaning but uses the alternate word form
asea
vsseawards
  • Archaic
9.9

Toward or out on the sea

refers only to movement toward the sea not being out on it

Antonyms

inland
49 2.7

Toward the middle of a country away from the coast

Surface Forms

seawards positive

Morphology

seawards = sea (transparent) = sea + wards

The meaning is directly derived from 'sea' plus the directional suffix '-wards', which clearly indicates movement toward the sea.

Etymology

Seawards is made of sea and -wards, where -wards means 'toward', the same idea you see in towards or homewards. So, seawards simply means moving 'toward the sea'.