outward

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English outward, from Old English ūtweard, equivalent to out +‎ -ward.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: out'wərd, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊt.wɚd/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: out'wəd, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊt.wəd/
• Hyphenation: out‧ward

• Audio (US):

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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.

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Noble and milde this Perſean ſeemes to be,
     If outward habit Iudge the inward man.

3. Tending to the exterior or outside.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Sigismond and Guiscardo”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     The fire will force its outward way.

4. (obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.
   • a. 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:

     an outward war

Translations

outer; located towards the outside

• Armenian: արտաքին (hy) (artakʻin)
• Bulgarian: външен (bg) (vǎnšen)
• Finnish: ulompi (fi)
• French: externe (fr)
• Georgian: გარეშე (gareše), გარე (gare), გარეგანი (ka) (garegani), გარეთკენ (garetḳen)
• German: äußere (de)
• Latin: exter (la), externus
• Macedonian: надво́решен (nadvórešen)
• Maori: mōwaho, ki waho
• Romanian: în afara
• Russian: нару́жный (ru) (narúžnyj), вне́шний (ru) (vnéšnij)
• Spanish: externo (es), exterior (es)
• Swedish: yttre (sv)

Adverb

outward (comparative more outward, superlative most outward)

1. Towards the outside; away from the centre. [from 10th c.]

   We are outward bound.

   • 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 Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     The wrong side may be turned outward.

2. (obsolete) Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly. [14th–17th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII (in Middle English):

     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 bretheren

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3. (nautical) Away from home.

Synonyms

• outwards

Antonyms

• inward
• inwards

Derived terms

• outward-looking
• outwardness

 

Translations

toward the outside; away from the centre

• Bulgarian: навън (bg) (navǎn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 向外 (zh) (xiàng wài)

• Finnish: ulospäin
• French: vers l’extérieur (fr)
• Georgian: გარეთკენ (garetḳen)
• German: nach außen (de)
• Irish: amach
• Japanese: 外へ (ja) (そとへ, soto e)
• Macedonian: на́надвор (nánadvor)
• Maori: whakawaho, ki waho
• Russian: нару́жу (ru) (narúžu)
• Swedish: yttre (sv)

Etymology 2

From out- +‎ ward.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /aʊtˈwɔɹd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /aʊtˈwɔːd/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

Verb

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.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Ne any armour could his dint out-ward; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard.

Etymology 3

Noun

outward (plural outwards)

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

Anagrams

• draw out, outdraw

Middle English

Alternative forms

• owtward, outwarde, owtwarde, owȝtwarde, outeward, utward, utteward

Etymology

From Old English ūtweard; equivalent to out +‎ -ward.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːtward/, /ˈuːtwaːrd/

Adverb

outward

1. outside (in the exterior)
2. To an external location; outwards
3. At the exterior; at a location away from one's home or homeland
4. From an external perspective; seemingly.
5. secularly; in a practical manner.

Derived terms

• outwardes

Descendants

• English: outward
• Scots: outward

References

• “ǒutwā̆rd(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

Adjective

outward

1. outside, outer, on the surface
2. outward, toward the exterior
3. Oriented towards the outside.
4. Due to outside factors.
5. In somewhere outside a given place or thing (especially of a country).
6. Non-religious; lay

Derived terms

• outwardly

Descendants

• English: outward
• Scots: outward

References

• “ǒutwā̆rd(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

Noun

outward

1. The outside; the exterior

See also

• homward
• inward