get up

get up

verb

Definition of GET UP

1

to leave one's bed <you need to get right up when the alarm goes off in the morning>

Synonyms get up, rise, roll out, turn out, uprise

Related Words arouse, awake, awaken, bestir, stir, wake

Near Antonyms catnap, doze, drop off, lie up, nap, nod, rest, sleep, slumber, snooze; bunk, perch, roost, settle; couch, doss (down) [chiefly British], flop (down), lie (down), recline

Antonyms bed (down), retire, turn in

2

to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes <all got up in her Sunday best>

Synonyms apparel, array, attire, bedeck, caparison, costume, deck (out), do up, dress, dress up, enrobe, garb, garment, get up, gown, habit, invest, rig (out), robe, suit, tog (up or out), toilet, vesture

Related Words cloak, frock, jacket, mantle, vest; drape, enswathe, hap [dialect], huddle, swaddle, swathe, wrap; accoutre (or accouter), bedight [archaic], equip, furnish, habilitate, outfit, tailor, uniform; dress down, underdress

Near Antonyms denude, divest, uncover, undrape, unveil

Antonyms disarray, disrobe, strip, unclothe, undress, untruss [archaic]

3

to call into being through the use of one's inner resources or powers <I'm still trying to get up the energy to reply>

Synonyms conjure (up), gather, get up

Related Words educe, elicit, evoke, raise