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upwardly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial upwardly has 1 sense
- upwardly(r = adv.all) up, upward, upwards - 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" Antonym: downwardly
OXFORD DICTIONARY
upwardly, adv. in an upward direction.
Idiom
upwardly mobile able or aspiring to advance socially or professionally.
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