sunward

sunward

English

Etymology

sun +‎ -ward

Adjective

sunward (comparative more sunward, superlative most sunward)

1. Directed or turned toward the sun.
   • 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, OCLC 1881984:

     His heart trembled; his breath came faster and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as though he were soaring sunward.

Quotations

• 1984 Laura R. Lyons, David J. Williams - Quantitative Aspects of Magnetospheric Physics

  The surface, positively charged on the dawn side and negatively charged on the evening side, separates the regions of sunward and anti-sunward plasma

Translations

directed towards the sun

Bulgarian: обърнат към слънцето (obǎrnat kǎm slǎnceto) Finnish: auringonpuoleinen

Adverb

sunward (comparative more sunward, superlative most sunward)

1. In the direction of the sun.
   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 4:

     To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.

Synonyms

• sunwards

Antonyms

• antisunward

Translations

in the direction of the sun

Finnish: aurinkoa kohti

Anagrams

• durwans, undraws