come up to

Verb

Meaning

speak to someone

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

approach equal reach address meet match achieve satisfy resemble equate accost fill the bill fit the bill extend to live up to

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Antonyms

top pass differ fail exceed disagree

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Hypernyms

come come up

Hyponyms

approach recognize greet recognise

Examples

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. Robert Benchley

People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce. Emo Philips

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. Thorstein Veblen

People come up to me and say, "Emo, do people really come up to you?" Emo Philips

I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone? Bill Hicks

Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue. Persian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

come up smelling like a rose come up smelling of roses come up snake eyes come up to expectations come up to scratch in come up to snuff