up and down

Speech parts

1. up and down - Adjective

2. up and down - Adverb

Meaning

moving backward and forward along a given course

alternately upward and downward

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

up-and-down

Synonyms

seesaw about around across plumb inconstant throughout completely vertical unstable irregular everywhere thoroughly volatile alternately
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Antonyms

antithetical opposites conflicting perspectives bizarre contrast deadly conflict bitter conflict bizarre variation
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Examples

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. Ernest Hemingway

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back. John Denver

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs. Dante Alighieri

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down. Maria Callas

They are going up and down the country, stirring up apathy. William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Close letter words and terms

up and coming up and disappear up and do up and down cut up and down incision up and down plane