upward

spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position

• “look up!”
• “the music surged up”
• “the fragments flew upwards”
• “prices soared upwards”
• “upwardly mobile”

to a later time

• “they moved the meeting date up”
• “from childhood upward”

directed up

• “the cards were face upward”
• “an upward stroke of the pen”

extending or moving toward a higher place

• “the up staircase”
• “a general upward movement of fish”