Word Meanings - UPSHOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation. I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. Shak. We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable
Additional info about word: UPSHOT
Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation. I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. Shak. We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence. De Quincey.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UPSHOT)
- Issue
- Effect
- outcome
- manifestation
- end
- result
- progeny
- posterity
- conclusion
- consequence
- upshot
- children
- offspring
- Result
- Termination
- issue
- effect
- product
- fruit
- development
- remainder
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of UPSHOT)
Related words: (words related to UPSHOT)
- FRUIT
The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3. (more info) enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin 1. Whatever - SPREADINGLY
, adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton. - FRUITAGE
1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton. 2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill. - SPRINGBOARD
An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising. - SPRINGE
A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak. - SPRINGAL
An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring. - STARTLINGLY
In a startling manner. - SPRINT
To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym: - SPRIGHTLY
Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope. - FRUITIVE
Eujoying; possessing. Boyle. - SPRINKLING
1. The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles. Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling or effusion of water. Ayliffe. 2. A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles; as, a sprinkling of rain or snow. 3. Hence, a moderate - PRECEDENTLY
Beforehand; antecedently. - EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
Effective. B. Jonson. - SPRINGY
1. Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step. Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy. Sir W. Scott. 2. Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, - OUTCOME
That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot. "The logical outcome." H. Spenser. All true literature, all genuine poetry, is the direct outcome, the condensed essence, of actual life and thougth. J. - SPRIGGED
Having sprigs. - DEVELOPMENT
The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another - RESULTIVE
Resultant. Fuller. - BEGIN
beginnen, OHG. biginnan, Goth., du-ginnan, Sw. begynna, Dan. begynde); pref. be- + an assumed ginnan. sq. root31. See Gin to 1. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God - SPRUNTLY
In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully. B. Jonson. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - INCONSEQUENCE
The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - MISCONCLUSION
An erroneous inference or conclusion. Bp. Hall. - HANDSPRING
A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground. - REISSUE
To issue a second time. - UNFRUITFUL
Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n. - MISPROPORTION
To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion. - MISPRONOUNCE
To pronounce incorrectly.