# outward
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English outward, from Old English ūtweard, equivalent to out +‎ -ward.

#### Pronunciation

* (General American) enPR: out'wərd, IPA: /ˈaʊt.wɚd/
* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: out'wəd, IPA: /ˈaʊt.wəd/
* Hyphenation: out‧ward
* Audio (US):(file)

#### Adjective

outward (comparative more outward, superlative most outward)
* outer; located towards the outside
* visible, noticeable
    By all outward indications, he's a normal happy child, but if you talk to him, you will soon realize he has some psychological problems.
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:Noble and milde this Perſean ſeemes to be, If outward habit Iudge the inward man.
* Tending to the exterior or outside.
** 1700, [John] Dryden, “Sigismond and Guiscardo”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:The fire will force its outward way.
* (obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.
** a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:an outward war

##### Translations
#### Adverb

outward (comparative more outward, superlative most outward)
* Towards the outside; away from the centre. [from 10th c.]
    We are outward bound.
** c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:The wrong side may be turned outward.
* (obsolete) Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly. [14th–17th c.]
** 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:ANd thenne the quene lete make a preuy dyner in london vnto the knyȝtes of the round table / and al was for to shewe outward that she had as grete Ioye in al other knyghtes of the table round as she had in sir launcelot / al only at that dyner she had sir Gawayne and his bretheren(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (nautical) Away from home.

##### Synonyms

* outwards

##### Antonyms

* inward
* inwards

##### Derived terms

* outward-looking
* outwardness

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From out- +‎ ward.

#### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /aʊtˈwɔɹd/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /aʊtˈwɔːd/
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

#### Verb

outward (third-person singular simple present outwards, present participle outwarding, simple past and past participle outwarded)
* (obsolete, rare) To ward off; to keep out.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Ne any armour could his dint out-ward; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

outward (plural outwards)
* A ward in a detached building connected with a hospital.

### Anagrams

* draw out, outdraw

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* owtward, outwarde, owtwarde, owȝtwarde, outeward, utward, utteward

### Etymology

From Old English ūtweard; equivalent to out +‎ -ward.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈuːtward/, /ˈuːtwaːrd/

### Adverb

outward
* outside (in the exterior)
* To an external location; outwards
* At the exterior; at a location away from one's home or homeland
* From an external perspective; seemingly.
* secularly; in a practical manner.

#### Derived terms

* outwardes

#### Descendants

* English: outward
* Scots: outward

#### References

* “ǒutwā̆rd(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

### Adjective

outward
* outside, outer, on the surface
* outward, toward the exterior
* Oriented towards the outside.
* Due to outside factors.
* In somewhere outside a given place or thing (especially of a country).
* Non-religious; lay

#### Derived terms

* outwardly

#### Descendants

* English: outward
* Scots: outward

#### References

* “ǒutwā̆rd(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

### Noun

outward
* The outside; the exterior

### See also

* homward
* inward