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upturn

UK/ˈʌp.tɜːn//ˈʌp.tɝn/

upturn noun: an upward turn or trend, especially in business activity or profit.

Noun

upturn (plural upturns)

  1. An upward turn or trend, especially in business activity or profit.
    • Near-synonyms: increase; improvement
    Antonyms:
    downturn

Verb

upturn (third-person singular simple present upturns, present participle upturning, simple past and past participle upturned)

  1. (ambitransitive) To turn (something) up or over.
    • Near-synonym: turn over

upturn meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

upturn in Tamil

எழுச்சி நிலை

upturn in Urdu

آشوب, طوائف الملوکی

upturn in Malayalam

upswing, improvement, turn for the better
മെച്ചപ്പെടൽ, അഭിവൃദ്ധി, പുരോഗമനം, കയറ്റം, കേറ്റം, ഉന്നമനം

Examples of upturn in a sentence

  • Farther down the beach they saw a weather-beaten shack and an upturned boat.
  • He was born with a silver spoon and an upturned nose. He didn't lose the latter when he squandered the former.
  • A dished or upturned muzzle is considered a fault in the Redbone Coonhound.

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Synonyms of upturn

Antonyms

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Forms of upturn

Noun
pluralupturns
Verb
third-person singular presentupturns
present participleupturning
past participleupturned
pastupturned

Origin of upturn

From Middle English upturnen, equivalent to up- + turn.

Words formed from upturn

Words that rhyme with upturn

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Questions about upturn

What does upturn mean?
Upturn means an upward turn or trend, especially in business activity or profit.
What is upturn in Tamil?
Upturn in Tamil is எழுச்சி நிலை. See Upturn meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is upturn?
Upturn can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce upturn?
Upturn is pronounced /ˈʌp.tɜːn/ (UK).
What is the plural of upturn?
The plural of upturn is upturns.

Words near upturn in the dictionary

  1. uptrended
  2. uptrending
  3. uptrends
  4. uptune
  5. uptunes
  6. upturn
  7. upturned
  8. upturneth
  9. upturning
  10. upturnings
  11. upturns

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upturn (page history and authors); upturn (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); upturn (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); upturn (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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