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adjective as in irregular
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- aimless
- casual
- changeable
- designless
- desultory
- disconnected
- discontinuous
- fitful
- fluctuating
- fragmentary
- haphazard
- hit-or-miss
- inconstant
- indiscriminate
- infrequent
- nonuniform
- occasional
- out of order
- patchy
- purposeless
- recurrent
- shaky
- spasmodic
- uncertain
- unconsidered
- unmethodical
- unpunctual
- unsettled
- unsteady
- unsystematic
- up and down
adjective as in plumb
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in throughout
Weak matches
- all over
- all the time
- all through
- around
- at full length
- completely
- during
- every bit
- everyplace
- everywhere
- far and near
- far and wide
- for the duration
- from beginning to end
- from end to end
- from one end to the other
- from start to finish
- from the start
- from the word go
- high and low
- in all respects
- in every place
- in everything
- inside and out
- on all accounts
- over
- overall
- right through
- round
- the whole time
- through the whole of
- to the end
- up and down
adjective as in wanton
Strongest matches
adjective as in to and fro
adjective as in capricious
Strongest matches
adjective as in supererogative
Weak matches
- capricious
- changeable
- devil-may-care
- extravagant
- fanciful
- fickle
- fitful
- fluctuating
- free
- frivolous
- gratuitous
- heedless
- hot-and-cold
- immoderate
- inconstant
- intemperate
- lavish
- outrageous
- prodigal
- profuse
- rash
- reckless
- spendthrift
- spoiled
- supererogatory
- thriftless
- uncalled-for
- unfettered
- unreserved
- unrestrained
- up and down
- variable
- volatile
- wasteful
- whimsical
- wild
adjective as in supererogatory
Weak matches
- capricious
- changeable
- devil-may-care
- extravagant
- fanciful
- fickle
- fitful
- fluctuating
- free
- frivolous
- gratuitous
- heedless
- hot-and-cold
- immoderate
- inconstant
- intemperate
- lavish
- outrageous
- prodigal
- profuse
- rash
- reckless
- spendthrift
- spoiled
- supererogative
- thriftless
- uncalled-for
- unfettered
- unreserved
- unrestrained
- up and down
- variable
- volatile
- wasteful
- whimsical
- wild
adverb as in thoroughly
Strongest matches
adverb as in back and forth
adverb as in backwards and forwards
adverb as in exhaustively
adverb as in intensively
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- absolutely
- all the way
- altogether
- conclusively
- en masse
- finally
- from A to Z
- from beginning to end
- hook, line, and sinker
- in all
- in and out
- in entirety
- in full
- in toto
- inside out
- on all counts
- painstakingly
- perfectly
- quite
- solidly
- to the end
- to the limit
- to the max
- to the nth degree
- totally
- ultimately
- unabridged
- unanimously
- unconditionally
- undividedly
- up and down
- utterly
- wholly
- with heart and soul
- without omission
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Example Sentences
“We will be known for the disaster now,” says 55-year-old Jacques Lachance, who grew up down the street from the town center.
By two in the afternoon, the customers were queued up down the block.
Barricade and shoot as you like, it will be a hard thing to keep three-score desperate men boxed up down below.
Perhaps it may be necessary to do some cleaning up down there.
He stood there looking up—down—at them, and he wore a peculiarly astonished and half-frightened and wholly foolish grin.
Imagine a girl who was brought up down there coming here for a winter to endure our cold, snow, and blizzards.
I reckon maybe that th' water's started to warm up down in the pool, ain't it?
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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to up-and-down, such as: bobbing, perpendicular, seesaw, uneven, vacillating, and vertical.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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