down, downward - extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream" Antonym:ascending (indirect, via descending)
Adverbialdownward has 1 sense
down, downwards, downward, downwardly - spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward" Antonyms:up, upwards, upward, upwardly