AIはらだくんの最強英語パラフレーズ辞典

downward

下向きの;下降の;下の方へ

入試の言い換え

a downward spiral(下向きのらせん)は「悪循環・負のスパイラル」。日本語の「負のスパイラル」は英語の直訳に近く、英作文では a vicious circle と並んで使える便利な表現。グラフ問題でも downward / upward は必須語。

downward の類語

declining, falling, descending, sloping, on the decline, down, downhill, below, upward, downwards, down-reaching, streaming, back-flowing, backward, rushing, sinking, up-trending, down-trending, going, running, back, setting, flying, rotational, passing, axial, rising, plunging, regressive, progressive, dropping, flowing, downstairs, mounting, submerging, rotary, drifting, fluent, downwardly, foundering, soaring, collapsing, ascending, retrogressive, descendant, downgrade, deciduous, sagging, down south, sideward, plummeting, on the descendant, drooping, on the downgrade, subsiding, downstream, downright, tumbledown, gyratory, decurrent

downward の反意語

rising, upward, up, ascending, upwards, upwardly

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downward の言い換えを探すには

downward(下向きの)の類語・言い換え(パラフレーズ)を、日本語訳つきで関連度順に並べています。入試で狙われる言い換えパターン、ニュアンスの違い、語源、日本人がやりがちなワナも解説。英作文の語彙を増やしたいとき、長文読解で本文と選択肢の言い換えを見抜きたいときに使えます。