upward in WordNet English dictionary

1. spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
   "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile"
   up  upwards  upward  upwardly  up  upwards  upward  upwardly 
   
2. to a later time
   "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"
   up  upwards  upward  up  upwards  upward 
   

1. extending or moving toward a higher place
   "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish"
   up  upward 
   
2. directed up
   "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen"
   upward