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up and down
adjective as in impulsive
Strongest matches
adjective as in irregular
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in mercurial
Strongest matches
adjective as in plumb
adjective as in throughout
Weak matches
- all over
- all the time
- all through
- around
- at full length
- completely
- during
- every bit
- everyplace
- everywhere
- far and near
- far and wide
- for the duration
- from beginning to end
- from end to end
- from one end to the other
- from start to finish
- from the start
- from the word go
- high and low
- in all respects
- in every place
- in everything
- inside and out
- on all accounts
- over
- overall
- right through
- round
- the whole time
- through the whole of
- to the end
adjective as in vertical
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
adjective as in volatile
adjective as in wanton
Strongest matches
adjective as in to and fro
adjective as in capricious
Strongest matches
adjective as in up-and-down
Strong match
adjective as in supererogative
Weak matches
- capricious
- changeable
- devil-may-care
- extravagant
- fanciful
- fickle
- fitful
- fluctuating
- free
- frivolous
- gratuitous
- heedless
- hot-and-cold
- immoderate
- inconstant
- intemperate
- lavish
- outrageous
- prodigal
- profuse
- rash
- reckless
- spendthrift
- spoiled
- supererogatory
- thriftless
- uncalled-for
- unfettered
- unreserved
- unrestrained
- variable
- volatile
- wasteful
- whimsical
- wild
adjective as in supererogatory
Weak matches
- capricious
- changeable
- devil-may-care
- extravagant
- fanciful
- fickle
- fitful
- fluctuating
- free
- frivolous
- gratuitous
- heedless
- hot-and-cold
- immoderate
- inconstant
- intemperate
- lavish
- outrageous
- prodigal
- profuse
- rash
- reckless
- spendthrift
- spoiled
- supererogative
- thriftless
- uncalled-for
- unfettered
- unreserved
- unrestrained
- variable
- volatile
- wasteful
- whimsical
- wild
adverb as in thoroughly
Strongest matches
adverb as in back and forth
adverb as in backwards and forwards
adverb as in exhaustively
adverb as in intensively
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- absolutely
- all the way
- altogether
- conclusively
- en masse
- finally
- from A to Z
- from beginning to end
- hook, line, and sinker
- in all
- in and out
- in entirety
- in full
- in toto
- inside out
- on all counts
- painstakingly
- perfectly
- quite
- solidly
- to the end
- to the limit
- to the max
- to the nth degree
- totally
- ultimately
- unabridged
- unanimously
- unconditionally
- undividedly
- utterly
- wholly
- with heart and soul
- without omission
adjective as in variable
Strong match
adverb as in backwards and forwards
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Did you share his feelings about the up-and-down fourth season of the show?
The piece consists of two classic oil pumps, doing their usual up-and-down amid the passing tourists and New Yorkers.
So you might have assumed that it would have been a straight “up-and-down” clean vote for McCain-Palin and repair to the bar.
We had no more than got fairly between the straight-up-and-down walls of it than Piegan halted us with a warning hand.
It was five minutes to three, and there were fifty miles of caon and up-and-down trail over the divide to be covered.
"There iss no wrong time for seeing friends," Belle replied, in an up-and-down and very musical Welsh accent.
If you chop on a board steady the point of a knife with one hand and use an up-and-down motion with the other hand.
A single up-and-down purring note replied from the bushes on her right.
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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to up-and-down, such as: bobbing, perpendicular, seesaw, uneven, vacillating, and vertical.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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