Definitions

upfront

ADJECTIVE

honest

Synonyms

STRONGEST

authentic conscientious decent equitable fair forthright genuine honorable impartial proper reliable sincere straightforward true trustworthy virtuous

WEAK

aboveboard bona fide direct ethical fair and square frank high-minded ingenuous just law-abiding lay it on the line like it is no lie on the level on the up and up open outright plain real reputable scrupulous straight true blue trusty undisguised unfeigned upright veracious what you see is what you get

Antonyms

STRONGEST

biased corrupt counterfeit deceitful deceptive devious dishonest false insincere irresponsible partial prejudiced unfair unjust unreal unreasonable unreliable unsuitable untrustworthy

WEAK

fraudulent lying misleading treacherous untruthful

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As frontier AI labs soaked up the available compute, cloud providers moved to require multiyear contracts with upfront costs often as high as 30%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Rapid fleet growth could require a lot of money upfront.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

"Inside the body, we can't do that post-manufacturing quality control, so we really needed to optimize the approach upfront to avoid altering any other cells."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

The 33-year-old from England’s south coast calculated the upfront cost of his preferred version of the Chinese sport-utility vehicle at the equivalent of around $50,000, half the price of a visually similar Range Rover model.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“Yeah, well, you should’ve been upfront about that too,” I say angrily.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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