Scrabble & Words with friends points
- ups is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 5
- ups is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 5
- ups is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 7
Definition of ups
- getting higher or more vigorous (adjective)
Examples
- its an up market
Synonyms
- improving
- to a later time (adverb)
Examples
- they moved the meeting date up
- from childhood upward
Synonyms
- upward
- upwards
- spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position (adverb)
Examples
- look up!
- the music surged up
- the fragments flew upwards
- prices soared upwards
- upwardly mobile
Synonyms
- upward
- upwardly
- upwards
- out of bed (adjective)
Examples
- up by seven each morning
Synonyms
- astir
- extending or moving toward a higher place (adjective)
Examples
- the up staircase
- a general upward movement of fish
Synonyms
- upward
- being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level (adjective)
Examples
- the anchor is up
- the sun is up
- he lay face up
- he is up by a pawn
- the market is up
- the corn is up
- open (adjective)
Examples
- the windows are up
- raise (verb)
Examples
- up the ante
- (used of computers) operating properly (adjective)
Examples
- how soon will the computers be up?
- used up (adjective)
Examples
- time is up
- (usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness (adjective)
Examples
- he was up on his homework
- had to be up for the game
- to a higher intensity ()
Examples
- he turned up the volume
- to a more central or a more northerly place ()
Examples
- was transferred up to headquarters
- up to Canada for a vacation
See definition of ups in Merriam Webster