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What is the adverb for upwards?

What's the adverb for upwards? Here's the word you're looking for.

upwards
  1. Towards a higher place; towards what is above.
  2. To a higher figure or amount.
  3. Towards something which is higher in order, larger, superior etc.
  4. Backwards in time, into the past.
  5. To or into later life.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Long fingers of light shoot upwards into the sky.”
      “Faced with skyrocketing petroleum prices the government has lost no time in adjusting the prices of gasoline, diesel and cooking gas upwards.”
      “Summer Parks Tennis Programme which involved the hiring of qualified coaches to run daily tennis lessons for children from 6 years upwards.”
upward
  1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin
  2. In the upper parts; above.
  3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The bird fluttered before me and then flew upward.”
upwardly
  1. In an upward manner.
  2. Towards a higher level, position or status.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He foresaw the huge demand for good-quality pre-prepared meals for the upwardly mobile.”
      “Puritan, and Parliamentary, ideas were most popular among the upwardly mobile commercial middle classes.”
      “The crucible holder is secured to a lid of the furnace, and the furnace lid is guided along upwardly extending guide rods.”
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