English-Finnish translations for downwards

• alaspäin
  Kasvuennusteita tarkistetaan jatkuvasti alaspäin. Growth forecasts are increasingly revised downwards.
  IMF:n ennusteita on jälleen tarkistettu alaspäin. The IMF's forecasts have once again been revised downwards.
  Tulevina viikkoina meidänkin ennusteitamme tarkistetaan alaspäin. Our forecasts in a few weeks are going to be revised downwards.
• alas
  Aivan, mutta kuunnelkaapa tätä keskustelua oikealta vasemmalle ja ylhäältä alas. Yes, but listen to this debate from left to right and upwards and downwards.
  Ympäristövaatimuksia ei pidä EU:ssa yhdenmukaistaa alas- vaan ylöspäin. Environmental requirements within the EU must not be harmonised downwards, but upwards.
  Kotimaassani Saksassa, joka on Euroopan unionin suurin talousalue, odotuksia tulevista liiketoiminnan edellytyksistä on tarkistettu alaspäin. In my home country, Germany, the largest economy in the European Union, our expectations of future business conditions have been revised downwards.

Definition of downwards

• Towards a lower place; towards what is below
• Towards something which is lower in order, smaller, inferior, etc

Examples

• Gravity pulls everything downwards.
• After the rise in oil prices, the economy headed downwards.

Related words

• downward
• downwardly
• downward downwards
• downward current
• downward slope
• downward bulge
• move downward