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形容詞

sunward (comparative more sunward, superlative most sunward)

1. Directed or turned toward the sun.
   • 1896, Clifton Johnson, “The Weather”, in What They Say in New England (non-fiction), Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Lee and Shepard Publishers, page 31:

     On some days of autumn you may see the grass full of stringy lines of cobwebs that make a glistening path sunward.

   • 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:

     His heart trembled; his breath came faster and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as though he were soaring sunward.

   • 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

等位語

• earthward
• moonward
• starward

副詞

sunward (comparative more sunward, superlative most sunward)

1. In the direction of the sun.
   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 4:

     To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.

同意語

• sunwards

反意語

• antisunward

参考

• heliotrope

アナグラム

• durwans, undraws