Directed or moving toward the ceiling.
From 'ceiling' + '-ward' suffix (from Old English 'weard' meaning 'toward'). The '-ward' suffix creates directional adverbs like 'upward,' 'homeward,' 'skyward.'
This word is delightfully specific—it's rarely used in everyday speech, but when architects or writers do use it, it perfectly captures that sense of something pointing upward toward the room's overhead boundary!
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