outward

Adjective

outward (comparative more outward, superlative most outward)

1. Outer; located towards the outside.
2. Visible, noticeable.
   • By all outward indications, he's a normal happy child, but if you talk to him, you will soon realize he has some psychological problems.
   • Noble and milde this Perſean ſeemes to be,
     If outward habit Iudge the inward man.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
3. Tending to the exterior or outside.
   • The fire will force its outward way.1700, [John] Dryden, “Sigismond and Guiscardo”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
4. (obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.
   • an outward wara. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC

Adverb

outward (comparative more outward, superlative most outward)

1. Towards the outside; away from the centre.
   • We are outward bound.
   • The wrong side may be turned outward.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
2. (obsolete) Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly.
   • ANd thenne the quene lete make a preuy dyner in london vnto the knyȝtes of the round table / and al was for to shewe outward that she had as grete Ioye in al other knyghtes of the table round as she had in sir launcelot / al only at that dyner she had sir Gawayne and his bretheren1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII
3. Away from home.

Verb

US/aʊtˈwɔɹd/UK/aʊtˈwɔːd/

outward (third-person singular simple present outwards, present participle outwarding, simple past and past participle outwarded)

1. (obsolete, rare) To ward off; to keep out.
   • Ne any armour could his dint out-ward; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun

outward (plural outwards)

1. A ward in a detached building connected with a hospital.