Word.ws English Dictionary

upgrowths

upgrowths is the plural of upgrowth.

Meaning of upgrowth

Noun

upgrowth (plural upgrowths)

  1. The process or result of growing up; progress; development.
    • The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called "Christian civilization," and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of...1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 188

Questions about upgrowths

What is upgrowths the plural of?
Upgrowths is the plural of upgrowth.

Words near upgrowths in the dictionary

  1. upgrowing
  2. upgrowings
  3. upgrown
  4. upgrows
  5. upgrowth
  6. upgrowths
  7. upgun
  8. upgunned
  9. upgunning
  10. upguns
  11. upgush

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upgrowths (page history and authors); upgrowth (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “upgrowths.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/upgrowths. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.