Definitions for earthward

earthward earth·ward

Spelling: [urth-werd]
IPA: /ˈɜrθ wərd/

Earthward is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 254 anagrams from letters in earthward (aadehrrtw).

Definitions for earthward

adverb

  1. Also, earthwards. toward the earth.

adjective

  1. directed toward the earth.

Origin of earthward

First recorded in 1350-1400, earthward is from the Middle English word ertheward. See earth, -ward

Examples for earthward

The monk's watery eyes were rolled upward in pious disapproval, before he turned them earthward with a sigh of resignation.

In another moment a score of willing hands were tugging it earthward.

One of her training too—suspended in mid air—not an earthward glance.

It was no desire for a purer justice or wiser laws that hurried Ithuriel earthward.

Can woman with her immortality be happy when its drawings are all earthward?

Thus "earthward," and not heavenward, "all things" in the family of the drunkard have a tendency.

We had partly circled the Moon so as now to approach it from the earthward side.

There is light, even from the earthward side, upon this dark river, love!

You cannot conceive it; it could not be done, the earthward hold is so strong.

Aiming it toward the stars, opposite earth, its reactive blasts shoved me earthward, thanks to Newton.

Word Value for earthward
Scrable

16

Words with friends

15

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