Ceilingward

Origin

ceiling + -ward

Full definition of ceilingward

Adjective

1. Facing or directed toward the ceiling.
• 1971, Eaton K. Goldthwaite, The Marble Forest, Doubleday (1971), page 41:Noble's eyes flashed in a quick ceilingward glance.
• 2008, D. M. Cornish, Lamplighter, G. P. Putnam's Sons (2008), ISBN 9780399246395, page 141:". . . Did you see what she upstairs had delivered today?" one woman huffed with a ceilingward glance and a dripping poke of her thumb in the vague direction of the Snooks.
• 2012, Kathy Lette, The Boy Who Fell to Earth, Bantam (2012), ISBN 9780593060834, page 59:Once again, my little attempt to charm her with humour was met with a ceilingward lifting of the eyebrows in finicky disapproval.

Adverb

1. Toward the ceiling.
• 1949, Frank Kane, Green Light for Death, Prologue Books (2012), ISBN 9781440539961, unnumbered page:Liddell nodded, exhaled a feathery tendril of dirty white smoke ceilingward.
• 1989, Sandra Brown, Long Time Coming, Bantam Dell (2006), ISBN 9780553589351, page 76:“Mom!” he said, rolling his eyes ceilingward. “I'm not a kid, you know.”
• 2002, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Vectors, Bantam Spectra (2002), ISBN 0553298240, page 118:Logging off, Alynn stood up and stretched her arms ceilingward, fingers intertwined high above her head.