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View synonyms for onward

onward

[ on-werd, awn- ]

adverb

  1. toward a point ahead or in front; forward, as in space or time.

    Antonyms: backward

  2. at a position or point in advance.


adjective

  1. directed or moving onward or forward; forward.

    Antonyms: backward

onward

/ ˈɒnwəd /

adjective

  1. directed or moving forwards, onwards, etc


adverb

  1. a variant of onwards

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Word History and Origins

Origin of onward1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; on, -ward

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Synonym Study

See forward.

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Example Sentences

First appearing in 1779, sex-assignment surgeries became increasingly popular from the nineteenth century onward.

One example of that: Rudel was a prominent member of the neo-Nazi German Reich Party from 1953 onward.

This was not onward and upward for TV news, but it got good ratings for CNN, so expect to see more.

First he headed to Juba, South Sudan, covering the ongoing crisis there for Anadola, and then, onward to Nigeria.

But from Tora Bora onward, political life in America became one frustration after the next.

He swam with her upon the summit of the breaking Wave, lifted upon its crest, swept onward irresistibly.

In the depths of his being, below an immense horizon, shone joy, luring him onward and brightening as it did so.

But he did succeed, and the ships sailed onward as though nothing had happened.

They both rose and each carrying his hat in his hand, the better to facilitate "thinking," went silently onward again.

We were mere atoms in a vast wave of horn and bone and flesh that bore us onward as the tide floats driftwood.

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