Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

downwardly

  • a word derived from downward.
    downward
    adverb
    Also downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

The party’s base—and its ideological vanguard—consists of downwardly mobile college graduates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Weekly jobless claims totaled 206,000, down from the previous week’s downwardly revised 212,000 and slightly lower than forecast.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

Continuing claims, which scale with the total size of the unemployed population, totaled 1,796,000 in the week through July 11, falling by 2,000 from the downwardly revised total of a week earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Overall import prices rose 0.3% in June, less than the downwardly revised increase of 1.7% in May, the data showed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

And as a fir-tree tapers upward from branch to branch, so downwardly did that, I think in order that no one may go up.

From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory by Charles Eliot Norton