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otherwards

otherwards adverb: towards an other or another direction.

Adverb

otherwards

  1. Towards an other or another direction.
    • For in this Arch too, leading, as we humbly presume, far otherwards than that grand primeval one, the materials are to be fished-up from the weltering deep, and down from the simmering air, here one mass, there another, ...1902, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: A Fully Annotated Edition with an Introductory Essay on Thomas Carlyle, page 172
    • "Embodiment" suggests the thing directly before us, while "expression" has the unfortunate tendency . . . to direct our thoughts otherwards to feelings or ideas which are expressed.1998, Margaret Chatterjee, Contemporary Indian Philosophy, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe, →ISBN, page 195

Origin of otherwards

From other + -wards; compare otherward.

Questions about otherwards

What does otherwards mean?
Otherwards means towards an other or another direction.
What part of speech is otherwards?
Otherwards is an adverb.

Words near otherwards in the dictionary

  1. othersome
  2. otherspace
  3. othertimes
  4. otherwaise
  5. otherward
  6. otherwards
  7. otherways
  8. otherweise
  9. otherwhat
  10. otherwhen
  11. otherwhence

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