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)

• Originate
• arise
• precede
• spring
• commence
• start
• begin

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
• 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.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• 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.