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floorward

floorward adjective: toward the floor.

Adjective

floorward (not comparable)

  1. Toward the floor.

Adverb

floorward (not comparable)

  1. Toward the floor.
    • As she was on her approach to the hoop, taking that first Jordanesque liftoff step, her mouth guard fell floorward. Undeterred, she kept going up with the ball in her right hand.2011, Robert Strauss, Daddy's Little Goalie, page 53

Origin of floorward

From floor + -ward.

Questions about floorward

What does floorward mean?
Floorward means toward the floor.
What part of speech is floorward?
Floorward can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near floorward in the dictionary

  1. floortiles
  2. floortime
  3. floorwalker
  4. floorwalkers
  5. floorwalking
  6. floorward
  7. floorwards
  8. floorway
  9. floorways
  10. floorwise
  11. floorwoman

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