Definitions of upwards

1. spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; " look up!"; " the music surged up"; " the fragments flew upwards"; " prices soared upwards"; " upwardly mobile"

2. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.

3. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; - opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward.

4. Toward a higher place or price.

5. In excess; more.

6. Toward that which is better or nobler.

7. Toward a higher place; toward heaven and God; with respect to the higher part; more than; toward the source.