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[ US /ˈaʊtwɝd/ ]
[ UK /ˈa‍ʊtwəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. that is going out or leaving
    the departing train
    an outward journey
    outward-bound ships
  2. relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind
    a concern with outward beauty rather than with inward reflections
ADVERB
  1. toward the outside
    move the needle further outward!

How To Use outward In A Sentence

  • Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
  • Our ambition is to build a prosperous, inclusive and outward-looking country. Times, Sunday Times
  • Outwardly, Gina didn't seem troubled - she babysat for neighbors, wrote cute poems, and smiled radiantly for pictures.
  • The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. Henry Ward Beecher 
  • This type of power - a culture that radiates outward and a market that draws inward - rests on pull, not on push; on acceptance, not on imposition.
  • As for the national outpouring of ersatz grief, reminiscent of the scenes that followed the death of Princess Diana, it surely spoke not of feeling but of an egotistical inability to feel, compensated for by outward show.
  • They go in sheep's russet, many great men that might maintain themselves in cloth of gold, and seem to be dejected, humble by their outward carriage, when as inwardly they are swollen full of pride, arrogancy, and self-conceit. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • But the inward thoughts of men, which appear outwardly in their words and actions, are the signs of our honouring, and these go by the name of worship; in Latin, cultus. Leviathan
  • My head turns sideways; my eyes turned outwards towards the wall. Times, Sunday Times
  • The subject is not a nugget of inner being that extends itself outward to others whom it never quite reaches.
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