sunward

English

Etymology

sun +‎ -ward

Adjective

sunward (comparative more sunward, superlative most sunward)

Directed or turned toward the sun.
- 1916 James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  His heart trembled; his breath came faster and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as though he were soaring sunward.

Quotations

1984 Laura R. Lyons, David J. Williams - Quantitative Aspects of Magnetospheric Physics
The surface, positively charged on the dawn side and negatively charged on the evening side, separates the regions of sunward and anti-sunward plasma

Translations

directed towards the sun

Finnish: auringonpuoleinen

Adverb

sunward (comparative more sunward, superlative most sunward)

In the direction of the sun.

Synonyms

sunwards

Antonyms

antisunward

Translations

in the direction of the sun

Finnish: aurinkoa kohti

Anagrams

durwans, undraws

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