Synonyms for upstairs
ˈʌpˈstɛərzup·stairs

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1. upstairsadverb

   Antonyms:
   downstairs

2. upstairsadverb

   located higher up a building.

   They can sleep in the upstairs bedroom.

   Antonyms:
   downstairs

3. upstairsadjective

   a pitched ball that is high, and usually outside the strike zone

   That fastball was upstairs for a ball.

   Antonyms:
   downstairs

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1. upstairsadjective

   the part of a building above the ground floor

   "no one was allowed to see the upstairs"

   Antonyms:
   ground-floor, downstair, downstairs, down the stairs, below, on a lower floor

2. upstairs, upstairadverb

   on or of upper floors of a building

   "the upstairs maid"; "an upstairs room"

   Synonyms:
   upstair

   Antonyms:
   downstairs, downstair, ground-floor, below, down the stairs, on a lower floor

3. upstairs, up the stairs, on a higher flooradverb

   on a floor above

   "they lived upstairs"

   Synonyms:
   on a higher floor, up the stairs

   Antonyms:
   downstair, ground-floor, downstairs, down the stairs, on a lower floor, below

4. upstairsadverb

   with respect to the mind

   "she's a bit weak upstairs"

   Synonyms:
   on a higher floor, up the stairs

   Antonyms:
   downstair, ground-floor, downstairs, on a lower floor, down the stairs, below

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "upstairs":

   top, up, floor, above

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1. Andy Stenning/Mirrorpix/Getty Images -RRB- McGrady:

   Every five minutes it was one of the charities or a friend sending flowers so I'd have to run downstairs, open the door, take the flowers, bring them back in and upstairs, and then the doorbell would go again.

2. William Congreve:

   I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar.

3. Michelle Obama:

   At 6:30 p.m., no matter how busy I am, I leave work to go upstairs and have dinner with my family. That's inviolable. My staff knows that it pretty much takes a national emergency to keep me away from that dinner table.

4. Marcus Stokes:

   Um, I just massacred my while family, the gun is still upstairs with the bodies. … I just killed my whole family with my Mossberg.

5. Stephen Fitzpatrick:

   The girls, who were all upstairs, heard what was going on in the living room, as they came to the staircase, Bobby Vanderhall was already coming up after them.