OUTWARD-BOUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outward-bound mean? 

• OUTWARD-BOUND (adjective)
  The adjective OUTWARD-BOUND has 1 sense:

1. that is going out or leaving

  Familiarity information: OUTWARD-BOUND used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTWARD-BOUND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That is going out or leaving

Synonyms:

outbound; outward; outward-bound

Context example:

outward-bound ships

Similar:

outgoing (leaving a place or a position)

 Context examples 

But the outward-bound ones were very much deeper—so much so that we can say for a certainty that there was a very considerable weight on the carriage.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)