GOT UP Synonyms: 103 Similar and Opposite Words

got up

verb

past tense of get up

as in rolled out

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

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as in clothed

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

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as in summoned

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

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Recent Examples of got up Hagens, in obvious pain, got up slowly and made his way to the bench. — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 7 Nov. 2026 In between the dinner of chicken pot pie — the long-standing dinner tradition at the CFDA Awards —and the accolades, guests got up and mixed and mingled among the tables underneath the life-sized, 94-foot-long, 21,000-pound giant blue whale. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 3 Nov. 2026 Portions of southwest Colorado and southeast Utah saw two to four inches, whereas areas with higher elevations, like the San Juan Mountains, got up to six inches. — Ava Berger, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026 Williamson, who wasn’t on the ALDS roster, made a diving grab on DeLauter’s sharp grounder, got up and threw him out. — Rob Maaddi, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 Jones got up, straightened his shoulder pads and headed back to the defensive backfield. — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2026 There were scuff marks on the coffee table where Porsha got up and tried to teach everyone how to twerk. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026 Barkov remained down for a few moments, then got up and headed toward the tunnel leading to the Florida dressing room. — ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026 Now, Entertainment Weekly looks back at what the cast of The Love Boat got up to after their years at sea. — Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for got up

Verb

Amid that uncertainty, athlete financing firm Sure Sports has rolled out a new product to help bridge that gap.

— Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 2 Nov. 2026
This was all thanks, as Oz put it, to TrumpRx, a new prescription-drug website that the Administration had rolled out.

— Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of rolled out

Verb

These songs leave a lot to the imagination, so these kids are summoned in these poetic portraits.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026
Countess Ingeborg Kálnoky ran the guest house where witnesses summoned to Nuremberg were lodged, which meant that victims of Nazism and perpetrators of it slept in adjacent bedrooms, passed one another on the stairs and took meals at the same table.

— Natalie Livingstone, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of summoned

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This turned out to be a formidable weapon for Democrats, many of whom made energy costs central to their campaigns.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Among those who turned out to celebrate Arjona were Brittany Snow, Jessica Alba, Marta Pozzan, Natalia Bryant, Julianne Hough, Shay Mitchell, Zoey Deutch and Yara Shahidi, with Deutch and Shahidi both past recipients of the award.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of turned out

Verb

Something healed in me over my wedding weekend, watching my gringo groom sweat through his vintage Hollywood tux while learning to dance samba from a passista dressed in her carnival regalia.

— Jess Joho, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
Stone was dressed as an aesthetically conscious conservative housewife with a crisp button-down shirt, A-line skirt, peroxide blowout and fake facelift sutures.

— Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of dressed

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This week, ahead of Abu Dhabi’s flagship energy conference ADIPEC, senior executives and CEOs from the energy industry gathered to discuss the challenges facing the industry under the Chatham House Rule.

— Amena Bakr, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
At the news conference, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said investigators at his office gathered video evidence, interviewed witnesses and worked closely with prosecutors to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident.

— Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026