upscale
/ˈʌpskeɪl/
upscale adjective: expensive and designed to appeal to affluent consumers.
Adjective
upscale (comparative more upscale, superlative most upscale)
- Expensive and designed to appeal to affluent consumers.
- For example, a good location for resale, such as an upscale suburb of new homes, will cost more money than a piece of land in an established neighborhood of small, postwar houses.1998, Sarah Susanka, Kira Obolensky, The not so so big house: a blueprint for the way we really live, Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 147
- In Rio de Janeiro, thousands protested in a gritty area far from the city’s upscale seaside districts. In other cities, demonstrators blocked roads, barged into City Council meetings or interrupted sessions of local lawmakers, clapping loudly and sometimes taking over the microphone.2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2019, retrieved 21 Jun 2013
- Synonyms:
- upmarket, high-class
- Antonyms:
- downscale
Verb
upscale (third-person singular simple present upscales, present participle upscaling, simple past and past participle upscaled)
upscale meaning in Urdu and Bengali
upscale in Urdu
- مہنگا, قیمتی
upscale in Bengali
- আপস্কেল
Examples of upscale in a sentence
- Our cracker shelves need some things at the 5.99 price point, both an upscale product and a very large size mid-range brand.
- Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is a suite of real-time deep learning image enhancement and upscaling technologies developed by Nvidia that are available in a number of video games.
- After nightfall on Sunday, the upscale residential neighbourhood of Whampoa became a flashpoint between protesters and police.
Synonyms of upscale
Antonyms
Forms of upscale
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more upscale |
| superlative | most upscale |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | upscales |
| present participle | upscaling |
| past participle | upscaled |
| past | upscaled |
Origin of upscale
From up + scale, 1966 (adjective), 1963 (verb).
Words formed from upscale
Questions about upscale
- What does upscale mean?
- Upscale means expensive and designed to appeal to affluent consumers.
- What is upscale in Urdu?
- Upscale in Urdu is مہنگا, قیمتی. See Upscale meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is upscale?
- Upscale can be an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce upscale?
- Upscale is pronounced /ˈʌpskeɪl/.
Words near upscale in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: upscale (page history and authors); upscale (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); upscale (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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