Usually means: Directed away from the center.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word outward:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. outward: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. outward: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. outward: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. outward: Collins English Dictionary
  5. outward: Vocabulary.com
  6. Outward, outward: Wordnik
  7. outward: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. outward: Wiktionary
  9. outward: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. outward: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. outward: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. outward: Dictionary.com
  13. outward: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. outward: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Outward: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Outward: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. outward: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. outward: Rhymezone
  19. outward: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. outward: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. outward: Free Dictionary
  22. outward: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. outward, outward(s): Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outward: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outward: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  outer; located towards the outside
adjective:  visible, noticeable
adjective:  Tending to the exterior or outside.
adjective:  (obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.
adverb:  Towards the outside; away from the centre.
adverb:  (obsolete) Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly.
adverb:  (nautical) Away from home.
verb:  (obsolete, rare) To ward off; to keep out.
noun:  A ward in a detached building connected with a hospital.

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