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synonyms for up and down

  • abrupt
  • hasty
  • impetuous
  • instinctive
  • offhand
  • passionate
  • spontaneous
  • violent
  • ad-lib
  • automatic
  • careless
  • devil-may-care
  • emotional
  • extemporaneous
  • flaky
  • gone off deep end
  • headlong
  • hot-and-cold
  • intuitive
  • involuntary
  • jumping the gun
  • mad
  • precipitate
  • quick
  • rash
  • sudden
  • swift
  • unconsidered
  • unexpected
  • unmeditated
  • unpredictable
  • unpremeditated
  • unprompted
  • up-and-down
  • winging it
On this page you'll find 591 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to up and down, such as: abrupt, hasty, impetuous, instinctive, offhand, and passionate.

antonyms for up and down

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  • calm
  • deliberate
  • planned
  • sensible
  • cautious
  • considering
  • heedful
  • thoughtful
  • wise
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                  How to use up and down in a sentence

                  We had no more than got fairly between the straight-up-and-down walls of it than Piegan halted us with a warning hand.
                  RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
                  It was five minutes to three, and there were fifty miles of caon and up-and-down trail over the divide to be covered.
                  MOTOR MATT'S "CENTURY" RUNSTANLEY R. MATTHEWS
                  "There iss no wrong time for seeing friends," Belle replied, in an up-and-down and very musical Welsh accent.
                  MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONS
                  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 COURSE OF LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND COOKERYJULIET CORSON
                  A single up-and-down purring note replied from the bushes on her right.
                  NOVICEJAMES H. SCHMITZ
                  Much wider, much more ordinary, not up-and-down at all, but running away into the distance.
                  SEA AND SARDINIAD. H. LAWRENCE
                  The view to the rear was impressive—a wide up-and-down plain studded with out-cropping of rocks, and patches of snow.
                  TALES OF LONELY TRAILSZANE GREY
                  Up-and-down men are skase, but the horizontal are less skaser.
                  JOSH BILLINGS, HIZ SAYINGSHENRY WHEELER SHAW
                  They are bilt sumthing like a hen, and are an up-and-down, flat-footed job.
                  THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOSH BILLINGSHENRY W. SHAW
                  It certainly seems to me safer to rely solely on the slowness of ascertained up-and-down movement.
                  MORE LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN VOLUME IICHARLES DARWIN
                  SYNONYM OF THE DAY
                  OCTOBER 26, 1985
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                  WORDS RELATED TO UP AND DOWN

                  • alternating
                  • backwards and forwards
                  • from pillar to post
                  • from side to side
                  • in and out
                  • seesaw
                  • to and fro
                  • up and down
                  • vacillating
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