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sunward

sunward

1 4.9
Moving toward the sun
  • adverb
  • /ˈsʌn.wɚd/
translation icon : hacia el sol
  • The birds flew sunward, following the warmth of the rays.
  • million miles sunward

Examples

  • Henrietta departed in the prograde direction, boosting to a path that would take her as far sunward as was deemed safe.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Just send all that crap on a slowly decaying orbit sunward and forget about it.

    Blog text (12)

  • Just send all that crap on a slowly decaying orbit sunward and forget about it.

    Blog text (12)

  • As had Kali, which had been detected in late 2212 as it fell sunward past the orbit of Jupiter.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Migrating silverwings streamed past, headed sunward.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The shuttle cruised silently sunward, its inertialess drive thrusting it ever closer to the third planet.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • During the hike, we walked sunward to reach the best viewpoint.

  • The flowers in the garden always seem to grow sunward, reaching for the light.

Synonyms

sunwise
vssunward
8.0

Moving toward the sun

describes direction toward the sun rather than facing it

Antonyms

shadowed
3.5

Darker because something blocks the light

Surface Forms

sunward positive

Morphology

sunward = sun (transparent) = sun + ward

The adverbial meaning 'toward the sun' follows directly from 'sun' + the directional suffix '-ward'.

Etymology

Sunward comes from sun + -ward, with -ward meaning 'toward', as in forward, so to go sunward is to move or face toward the sun.