Academic Dictionary
Home / Thesaurus / Inwards
Find the word that fits

Inwards: alternatives and connections

Begin with the reviewed alternatives, then explore broader connections without treating every related word as an automatic substitute.

Try an example: important law show help change happy
26,102 words currently have published synonym-style alternatives
90,593 searchable synonym connections
350,924 published thesaurus relationships of every type
Start with the meaning

Inwards

Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.

View the full dictionary entry Compare this word with another →
44 useful connections shown 2 reviewed relationships and 42 broader connections.
Best place to begin

Reviewed alternatives and contrasts

These links were deliberately created. Use the interchangeability score and guidance to judge whether a word will work in your sentence.

Synonym 2

In 92% connected

The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs signifying…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Definition Compare both words
Inward 92% connected

Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Definition Compare both words
Explore further

Words connected by meaning

Their definitions overlap or refer to similar ideas. Use these to widen your search, then compare the exact meanings.

Baker-legged adjective · 78% connection

Having legs that bend inward at the knees.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Basin noun · 78% connection

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Baton noun · 78% connection

An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; --…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Bend verb · 78% connection

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a cu…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Bendlet noun · 78% connection

A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Central adjective · 78% connection

Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Concentre verb · 78% connection

To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Confine verb · 78% connection

to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trai…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Constrain verb · 78% connection

to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trai…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Crouch verb · 78% connection

To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Cucullated adjective · 78% connection

Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Cyclone noun · 78% connection

(meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Decline verb · 78% connection

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Down adverb · 78% connection

In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Downward adjective · 78% connection

Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Entogastric adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroid…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Epicycle noun · 78% connection

A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the defer…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
Estre noun · 78% connection

The inward part of a building; the interior.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: toward, inside, center, interior, bend.
Definition Compare
All dictionary tools

Explore Academic Dictionary

The same nine destinations available from the header menu are shown here as a clear, fully visible grid.

Dictionary Definitions and meanings Thesaurus Synonyms with nuance Academic writing Evidence and analysis Professional Workplace vocabulary Word origins Etymology and roots Subjects Specialist dictionaries Word clusters Connected vocabulary Word similarity Compare two words Crossword Play with vocabulary