Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb On the outside or exterior; externally.
  • adverb Toward the outside.
  • adverb In regard to outward condition, conduct, or manifestation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • On the exterior or surface; outside; externally; hence, as regards appearance; visibly; perceptibly.
  • Away from the center; toward the outer part or outside: as, in entomology, a mark prolonged outwardly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb externally or on the outside, or on the surface
  • adverb toward the outside

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with respect to the outside
  • adverb in outward appearance

Etymologies

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outward +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • TODD: As a matter of fact, Wolf, the leader of CAIR, Nihad Awad, said that they had no indication from these families that any of them were -- were what he called outwardly radicalized.

    CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2009 2009

  • Earlier this year, Nespresso released its "Citiz" line, a minimalist approach to the machinery with little in outwardly manipulable mechanisms.

    The Best Luxury Espresso Machines Mike Isaac 2010

  • As younger people, our boundaries are far too close to give us comfort and spreading those barriers outwardly is necessary.

    The Gerrymandering Mind | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

  • Otherwise, yes, this whole mode of compliance, I haven't heard that term outwardly, in other words managers don't use that term but they wanted is for people to all sign onto the same thing, go the same way, follow the path so they could be successful.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • There is nothing outwardly, which is why this coroner ` s autopsy result is crucial in determining this cause of death.

    CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2009 2009

  • I'm just surprised that no one has thought of taking this trend one logical step further and making those labels outwardly visible.

    Come, Let Me Offend You 2008

  • Served in the last Bush administration, a well-known conservative Republican lawyer, but not known as outwardly, overly partisan.

    CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2007 2007

  • He was most expert in the handling of this apparatus, and on occasions he employed it more penetratingly than Descartes and others; but, for reasons best known to himself he elected to cast the Principia in a mold of Archimedean technicalities, outwardly, that is.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • History passes at this point -- and only outwardly, that is, without connection with the previous phase -- to Central Asia.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910

  • We were all very cheery at the happy turn of our fortunes; outwardly, that is to say, for there was a skeleton at the feast who kept tap, tap, tapping on the mahogany with his bony knuckles; tap, tap, tap; the gunfire at Helles was insistent, warning us that the Turks had not yet "taken their licking."

    Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Ian Hamilton 1900

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