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adjective as in ingoing

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• infiltrating
• penetrating

adjective as in private

• confidential
• intellectual
• psychological

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Example sentences.

This light drag basically slows down dust particles, and if you slow an object down in its orbit, it’s got to move inward, so the dust slowly spirals in toward the sun.

Away from the center, the inward pull of gravity is weaker, and there’s less inward-falling matter to temper the shock wave.

This inward work has led to a lot of fundamental improvements for operators.

It was all about pronation, ensuring that your shoe enabled your foot to roll inward by just the right amount with each stride.

Jupiter and Saturn together migrate outward instead of inward.

Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.

The brash, engaged, occasionally self-centered ex-lawmaker seemed to retreat inward and practically disappear.

Meanwhile, the rest of hull is wide at the waterline and slopes inward.

America is a narcissistic and inward-looking society at the best of the times.

Nonetheless, that “inward sweetness” awakened the future preacher to a rather uncommon youthful aptitude for holiness.

He makes a spiritual form of it so perfectly visible to your inward eye, that it seems as if you could almost hear it breathe!

Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for the brick wall.

Moreover, I have never quite lost that sense of peace and inward joy which accompanied the search.

Matt, clinging like grim death to the stout hemp, was jerked into the air and hurled forward and inward.

These inward joys peopled her solitude with society, and dispelled even from the dungeon its gloom.

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Words related to inward are not direct synonyms, but are associated with the word inward . Browse related words to learn more about word associations.

adjective as in basic, hereditary

• characteristic
• constitutional
• deep-rooted
• deep-seated
• distinctive
• fundamental
• in the grain
• indispensable
• instinctive
• part and parcel
• running in the family
• unalienable

adjective as in interior

• back country

adjective as in inner

adjective as in central, middle physically

adjective as in mental, private

• subconscious

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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inward, such as: inbound, entering, incoming, infiltrating, inflowing, and inpouring.

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Inward journey Synonyms

Inward replaced.

• internal journey
• personal journey
• spiritual journey
• psychological journey
• emotional journey
• intellectual journey
• mental journey
• religious journey
• familiar journey

Definitions for Inward

• (adjective) situated farther in
• (adjective) closely acquainted
• (adjective) directed or moving inward or toward a center

Synonyms for phrase

• secret passage
• internal flight
• hidden expedition
• private travel
• internal drive
• inner drive
• hidden passage
• secret travel
• private trip
• secret trip
• private tour
• intimate tour
• personal travel
• secret voyage
• private cruise
• secret expedition
• private flight
• secret excursion
• personal tour
• private outing

IJ abbreviation

Definitions for journey.

• (noun) a going from one place to another usually of some distance
• (verb) to take a trip especially of some distance
• (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another

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Synonyms for inward

• penetrating
• confidential

of, relating to, or arising from one's mental or spiritual being

Relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts, directed or moving inward or toward a center, related words, toward the center or interior, to or toward the inside of.

• involucrate
• involuntarily
• involuntariness
• involuntary
• involuntary muscle
• involuntary trust
• involutional depression
• involvement
• invulnerability
• invulnerable
• inward-developing
• inward-moving
• in-your-face
• iodinated protein
• invulnerableness
• invulnerably
• Invulnerate
• Invultuation
• Inwang Yoksa
• Inward Bound
• inward dive
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• Inward Radial
• Inward rotation
• Inward Voice Activated Services
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• inward-developingly
• Inward-flow turbine
• inward-looking
• inward-movingly
• inward-outward dialing system
• Inward-pointing normal
• Inward-Rectifier K Channel
• inwardly rectifying current
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Word History

Middle English, from Old English inweard (akin to Old High German inwert ), from in + -weard -ward entry 1

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Dictionary Entries Near inward

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“Inward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inward. Accessed 30 Apr. 2024.

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Synonyms of 'inwards' in British English

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Definition of inward adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• an inward smile
• Her calm expression hid her inward panic.

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