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downside up

downside up is the alternative form of upside down.

Meaning of upside down

Adjective

upside down (not comparable)

  1. Inverted; turned so that the top is at the bottom.
    • The pattern resembled an upside down letter W.
  2. In great disorder.
    • The wenches and the men have been on the streets all day, and the kitchen is upside down. You never saw the like.1901, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The lion's whelp: a story of Cromwell's time, page 248
  3. Owing more money for something than it is worth; having negative equity.
    • He's upside down on his mortgage.
    Synonyms:
    underwater
  4. (humorous) Australian.

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Questions about downside up

What is downside up the alternative form of?
Downside up is the alternative form of upside down.

Words near downside up in the dictionary

  1. downshoots
  2. Downsian
  3. downside
  4. downside beta
  5. downside betas
  6. downside up
  7. downsides
  8. downsies
  9. downsitting
  10. downsittings
  11. downsizable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: downside up (page history and authors); upside down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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