OUTWARDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outwards mean? 

• OUTWARDS (adverb)
  The adverb OUTWARDS has 1 sense:

1. toward the outside

  Familiarity information: OUTWARDS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTWARDS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Toward the outside

Synonyms:

outward; outwards

Context example:

move the needle further outward!

 Context examples 

Once and twice his gasping face and clutching fingers broke up through the still green water, sweeping outwards in the swirl of the current.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This suggests that it originally formed in the inner Solar System and must have since migrated outwards.

(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)

How and why their atmospheres balloon outwards remains unknown, but this feature makes super-puffs prime targets for atmospheric investigation.

('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)

However, the wind was strong and blew outwards.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Kneeling on the near edge of the bed facing outwards was the white-clad figure of his wife.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Gradually, new microglia expanded outwards towards the edges of the retina.

(Immune cells in the retina can spontaneously regenerate, National Institutes of Health)

Even as he looked, the window above was pushed outwards, and the voice of the man whom he had seen there came out from it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I think it may be fairly assumed that if it does not come outwards it must run inwards.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The harbour lies below me, with, on the far side, one long granite wall stretching out into the sea, with a curve outwards at the end of it, in the middle of which is a lighthouse.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He stood with his feet close together, his knees bent outwards, ready for a dash inwards or a spring out.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)