onward
pronunciation
How to pronounce onward in British English:
UK [ˈɒnwəd]
How to pronounce onward in American English:
US [ˈɑnwərd]
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- Adjective:
- moving toward a position ahead
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- Adverb:
- forward in time or order or degree
- in a forward direction
Word Origin
- onward (adv.)
- late 14c., from on + -ward. The form onwards, with adverbial genitive -s-, is attested from c. 1600.
Antonym
Example
- 1. To cause to move forward or onward .
- 2. Teaching and guiding onward and upward .
- 3. Like when they go extra fast , cursing in the cracks , just onward and upward ......
- 4. Father was driven by , and hence drove his family with his forceful ambitions , his greed and his vanity , pushing us ever onward to seek out and to achieve position even higher than he himself had been able to grasp .
- 5. Continually , indeed , as it stole onward , the streamlet kept up a babble , kind , quiet , soothing , but melancholy , like the voice of a young child that was spending its infancy without playfulness , and knew not how to be merry among sad acquaintance and events of sombre hue .