• (GA) enPR: out'wərd, IPA: /ˈaʊt.wɚd/
• (RP) enPR: out'wəd, IPA: /ˈaʊt.wəd/

outward

1. outer; located towards the outside
2. visible, noticeable

   By all outward indications, he's a normal happy child, but if you talk to him, you will soon realize he has some psychological problems.

3. Tending to the exterior or outside.

   • The fire will force its outward way.

4. (obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.

   an outward war

• German: äußere
• Russian: нару́жный
• Spanish: externo, exterior

outward

1. Towards the outside; away from the centre. [from 10^thc.]

   We are outward bound.

   • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i]:

     The wrong side may be turned outward.

2. (obsolete) Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly. [14^th-17^thc.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:20.3?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter iij], in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:

     ANd thenne the quene lete make a preuy dyner in london vnto the knyȝtes of the round table / and al was for to shewe outward that she had as grete Ioye in al other knyghtes of the table round as she had in sir launcelot / al only at that dyner she had sir Gawayne and his bretheren

• outwards

• French: extérieur
• German: außen
• Russian: нару́жу

• (GA) IPA: /aʊtˈwɔɹd/
• (RP) IPA: /aʊtˈwɔːd/

outward (outwards, present participle outwarding; past and past participle outwarded)

1. (obsolete, rare) To ward off; to keep out.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.1:

     Ne any armour could his dint out-ward; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard.

outward (plural outwards)

1. A ward in a detached building connected with a hospital.