From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
upwardly adv 1: spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile" [syn: up, upwards, upward, upwardly] [ant: down, downward, downwardly, downwards]