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How to pronounce “downward”
Hear “downward” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for downward
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of downward with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Richard Preston: Climbing the world's biggest trees 20 minutes
except you're going upward instead of downward.
- Definition summary
- Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce downward
Richard Preston: Climbing the world's biggest trees 20 minutes

except you're going upward instead of downward.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “downward”
Meaning
- [Adverb]
- Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
- At a lower level.
- Southward.
- [Adjective]
- Moving, sloping or oriented downward.
- Located at a lower level.
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