WORKED UP Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

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as in wrought (up)

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verb

past tense of work up

as in developed

to produce or bring about especially by long or repeated effort spent years working up a period novel that was historically accurate in every detail

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Adjective

Washington School House Hotel is located atop Park Avenue, moments from Main Street, and provides complimentary après-ski fare in the living room for outdoor enthusiasts who have worked up an appetite. —

Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2025 Chicago — its fans, its organization and yes, its writers — has clung to that era as tightly as Toews and Kane clung to the Stanley Cup in that famous photo, because there’s been so little else to get worked up about. —

Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025

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And Allen’s complaints, though too vague to assess individually, are indeed the sorts of things one might reasonably get worked up about. —

Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2026 Fred and Palmer can’t get their heads around what the rest of the Marsies are so worked up about, and Boyd has far bigger fish to fry because her freelance sleuthing in the space-suit checkout logs has revealed something terrible. —

Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for worked up

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For the pillow particular, there’s a menu that includes buckwheat, down, foam, maternity—even a NASA pillow developed for astronauts suffering from neck or back pain.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
According to research developed by the Council for Community & Economic Research (C2ER), all 10 cities saw a larger cost of living increase between 2020 and 2025 compared to Los Angeles, with some cities experiencing twice as much of an increase.

— Lindsay Kornick, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026