sunward

adj, adv — 2 senses

sunward

adj

Etymology From sun + -ward.

1

Directed or turned toward the sun.

  • On some days of autumn you may see the grass full of stringy lines of cobwebs that make a glistening path sunward.1896, Clifton Johnson, “The Weather”, in What They Say in New England (non-fiction), Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Lee and Shepard Publishers, page 31:
  • His heart trembled; his breath came faster and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as though he were soaring sunward.1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
1 more example
  • The surface, positively charged on the dawn side and negatively charged on the evening side, separates the regions of sunward and anti-sunward plasma1984, Laura R. Lyons, David J. Williams, Quantitative Aspects of Magnetospheric Physics:
Coordinate terms
earthward, moonward, starward, shadeward

sunward

adv

Etymology From sun + -ward.

1

In the direction of the sun.

  • To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 4:
  • fruits of the flower pushed sun-ward through wide cracks in concrete1986, Donald W. Woods, “Sister Lesbos”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 104:
Synonyms
sunwards
Antonyms
antisunward
Related terms
heliotrope

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