Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

add up

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: 5.07 in modern English

Syllables: ad-d up
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To take the sum of; to total.

Transitive verb

verb

To accumulate; to amount to.

Intransitive verb

verb

To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost."
"When they added up the vaccine doses from all known and anticipate sources, they didn't have enough."
"If you can save even a couple of dollars per day, it will add up to a lot over a year."
"It all keeps adding up / I think I'm cracking up / Am I just paranoid? / Or am I just stoned?"
"The bus wound its way up into San Marino, passing through the various small castellos that add up to form the diminutive country, […]"
"His story just doesn't add up. Why would he have been at the restaurant the day before the event?"

Usage

Inflected Forms

adds up (present, singular) adding up (participle, present) added up (participle, past) added up (past)

Synonyms

sum up tally accrue mount up compute hang together check out make sense track figure add add together

Antonyms

subtract

Questions

What does add up mean?: To take the sum of; to total.

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