Westward

/ˈwɛst.wɚd/

Synonyms for "westward" (43 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (9)

Adjective(2 words)
cardinal pointscompass cardcompass rosedegreedegreeseast
Noun(1 words)
due west

Strong matches (13)

Adverb(1 words)
Noun(1 words)

Related words (21)

Noun(3 words)
Adjective(4 words)
westwesternwestern expansionwestward expansion
Adverb(1 words)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

9 entries
cardinal compass pointdirectiondirectional adverbdirectionalityexpansionhistorical processmotion directionspatial adverbspatial relation

More specific

7 entries
westboundwestbound currentwestbound windwestward dispersalwestward expansionwestward migrationwestward movement

Collocations

7 entries
westward directionwestward driftwestward expansionwestward migrationwestward movementwestward trajectorywestward wind

Derivations

2 entries

similar

1 entries

Sample sentences

22 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The sun declined westward.

Source: tatoeba (275077)

They headed westward.

Source: tatoeba (306977)

Europe is not really a continent; it juts westward out of Eurasia, the continent, as India juts southward out thereof.

Source: tatoeba (1972698)

Unlike waves that break along the shore, Rossby waves are huge, undulating movements of the ocean that stretch horizontally across the planet for hundreds of kilometers in a westward direction.

Source: tatoeba (6682958)

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