adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 connected with the way people or things seem to be rather than with what is actually true:
Mark showed no outward signs of distress. * She simply observes the outward forms of religion. * To all outward appearances (= as far as it was possible to judge from the outside) they were perfectly happy. * There were no outward signs that the house was inhabited.
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2 going away from a particular place, especially one that you are going to return to:
the outward voyage / journey
3 away from the centre or a particular point:
outward pressure / movement * outward investment (= in other countries) * Managers need to become more outward-looking (= more open to new ideas).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for outward is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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