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upmarket

upmarket adjective: designed for customers with a high income.

Adjective

upmarket (comparative more upmarket, superlative most upmarket)

  1. Designed for customers with a high income.
    • Temperatures in the western suburbs of Sydney, far from the upmarket beachside glamour, reached 47C (117F) last week, topping the 44C I experienced there the week before. For reference, if it reached 47C in the middle of the Sahara desert, that would be an unusually hot day.2017 February 20, Paul Mason, “Climate scepticism is a far-right badge of honour – even in sweltering Australia”, in the Guardian

Adverb

upmarket

  1. Towards the more expensive end of the market.
    • The hotel seems to have gone upmarket.

Verb

upmarket (third-person singular simple present upmarkets, present participle upmarketing, simple past and past participle upmarketed)

  1. (transitive) To render or become upmarket.
    • […] their flats and shops are upmarketed or pulled down to be replaced by hotels, offices and a privately owned park.1992, Elizabeth Wilson, The Sphinx in the City, page 159

upmarket meaning in Urdu

upmarket in Urdu

مہنگا, قیمتی

Antonyms of upmarket

Forms of upmarket

Adjective
comparativemore upmarket
superlativemost upmarket
Verb
third-person singular presentupmarkets
present participleupmarketing
past participleupmarketed
pastupmarketed

Origin of upmarket

From up- + market.

Words formed from upmarket

Questions about upmarket

What does upmarket mean?
Upmarket means designed for customers with a high income.
What is upmarket in Urdu?
Upmarket in Urdu is مہنگا, قیمتی. See Upmarket meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is upmarket?
Upmarket can be an adjective, an adverb or a verb.

Words near upmarket in the dictionary

  1. upmakes
  2. upmaking
  3. upmakings
  4. upman
  5. upmanship
  6. upmarket
  7. upmarketed
  8. upmarketing
  9. upmarketness
  10. upmarkets
  11. upmass

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upmarket (page history and authors); upmarket (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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