Outward \Out"ward\, a. 1. Forming the superficial part; external; exterior; -- opposed to {inward}; as, an outward garment or layer.
Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. --Cor. iv. 16.
2. Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what is external; manifest; public. ``Sins outward.'' --Chaucer.
An outward honor for an inward toil. --Shak.
3. Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war. [Obs.] --Hayward.
4. Tending to the exterior or outside.
The fire will force its outward way. --Dryden. ※ -- {Out"ward*ly}, adv. -- {Out"ward*ness}, n.
{Outward stroke}. (Steam Engine) See under {Stroke}.
"Traditionally, these are pretty macho guys and they may not seem outwardly affected.
And outwardly, at least, the proposed accord seems to be a good one for Texaco as well as the Saudis.
They don't outwardly show concern that what is happening in Eastern Europe will happen to them; for one thing, Asian communism is rooted in still-revered nationalist heroes, such as China's Mao Tse-tung and Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam.
Gibson plays an outwardly cynical veteran flier "who has made his uneasy peace with a world he knows is corrupt," the director said.
Subtle menstrual-cycle disturbances in women who have outwardly regular monthly periods could be an important underlying cause of bone loss that leads to fractures later in life, a study today concludes.
Yet the reconciliation was mostly for show. "What was outwardly an irreproachable picture of good family unity was inwardly misery and exhausting conflicts," he wrote.
Kosovo was outwardly peaceful Tuesday, except for scattered Serbian protests, under emergency measures imposed Monday after a week of unrest among the province's 1.8 million people.
"When the regulation they had feared was passed in 1985, only then did they become outwardly concerned about the hazards of their uses of PCB equipment," the appeals court said.
The researchers checked outwardly healthy relatives and close friends of the CFS patients.