Definitions for sunward

sunward sun·ward

Spelling: [suhn-werd]
IPA: /ˈsʌn wərd/

Sunward is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in sunward (adnrsuw).

Definitions for sunward

adverb

  1. Also, sunwards. toward the sun.

adjective

  1. directed toward the sun.

Origin of sunward

First recorded in 1605-15; sun + -ward

Examples for sunward

sunward is the blinding glare of the desert; on the dark side, enormous banks of lowering clouds.

Its aspect is sunward, its soil is good, its fences are in order.

On its sunward slope a door opened, disclosing a beauteous porch, which they entered, and the turf closed behind them.

Brulow's Comet was on the sunward swing, now, gaining speed under solar gravitation; but it still had a long ways to go.

But still the wing of the eagle drooped; the gathering storms baffled his sunward flight.

The oxygen-planet to sunward showed again as a lighted crescent.

Its sunward side is a dreary, sterile, hot and hostile desert.

So he moved closer, and hung off to the sunward side of the planet, then moved to the night side, but stayed in the light.

She had run heedlessly overnight, and she could not tell whether the squatting-place was sunward or where it lay.

The cones are about fifteen to eighteen inches long, and three in diameter; green, shaded with dark purple on their sunward sides.

Word Value for sunward
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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