Downwards

1. adv. From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line.
2. adv. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards.
3. adv. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.