downward

adverb

1. not comparable Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value. His position in society moved ever downward.
2. not comparable At a lower level. Dagon his Name, Sea Monster, upward Man / And downward Fish […]
3. not comparable Southward. If we turn to the New World, we find that among the American Indians, from the Eskimo of Alaska downward to Brazil and still farther south, homosexual customs have been very frequently observed.

Similar: down, downwards · Opposite: up, upwards

adjective

1. not comparable Moving, sloping or oriented down. He spoke with a downward glance.
2. not comparable Located at a lower level. In her chast Current oft the Goddess laves, And with Celestial Tears augments the Waves. Oft in her Glass the musing Shepherd spies The headlong Mountains and the downward Skies, The watry Landskip of the pendant Woods, And absent Trees that tremble in the Floods;