📒 towards the ground; towards a lower place or position
She was lying face downwards on the grass.
The garden sloped gently downwards to the river.
Car crime in Oxford fell significantly last year.
📒 towards a lower level, amount or price
Nine per cent of commuters used public transport in 2018 and the trend is downwards.
It was a policy welcomed by world leaders from the US president downwards.
Official projections of the spread of AIDS have mercifully been revised downwards (= it has been predicted that the disease will not spread as fast as had earlier been suggested).