1. Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
   "Prices have been trending upward";
   - up, upwards, upwardly
    
2. To a later time
   "from childhood upward";
   - up, upwards

1. Directed up
   "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen"
    
2. Extending or moving toward a higher place
   "a general upward movement of fish";
   - up

See also: ascending, up

Antonym: downward

Encyclopedia: Upward