EARTHWARD Synonyms

• being or moving lower in position or less in some value

• soft fine feathers

• English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

• (American football) a complete play to advance the football

• (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

• fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

• away from a more central or a more northerly place

• paid in cash at time of purchase

• from an earlier time

• to a lower intensity

• in an inactive or inoperative state

• extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

• becoming progressively lower

• being put out in a game of baseball

• understood perfectly

• lower than previously

• shut

• not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• drink down entirely

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• bring down or defeat (an opponent)

• shoot at and force to come down

• cause to come or go down

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

• extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

• on or toward a surface regarded as a base

• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

• down to defeat, death, or ruin

• through a range downward

• into unconsciousness

• in or into a state of subordination or subjugation

• below some quantity or limit

• below the horizon

• down below

• further down

• located below or beneath something else

• lower in rank, power, or authority

• on the lower or downward side; on the underside of

• under or below an object or a surface; at a lower place or level; directly beneath