upside
upside is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The upper side; the part that is uppermost. To be upsides with, to be even with. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott. T. Hughes. -- Upside down. Etym: [Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down, literally, up as down.] With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy. Shak. These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also. Acts xvii. 6.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- about
- anastrophe
- and
- before
- bottom
- capsize
- cart
- contraposition
- contrariety
- contrary
- down
- eversion
- head
- heavy
- horse
- hypallage
- hyperbaton
- inside
- introversion
- introvert
- inverse
- inversely
- inversion
- invert
- inverted
- keel
- metastasis
- metathesis
- opposite
- out
- over
- overturn
- palindrome
- parenthesis
- pirouette
- pronation
- put
- retroversion
- retrovert
- reversal
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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