upside

English

Alternative forms

• up-side

Etymology

up +‎ side

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌpˌsaɪd/, enPR: ŭpʹsīd'

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• Rhymes: -ʌpsaɪd

Noun

upside (plural upsides)

1. The highest or uppermost side or portion of something.
2. (figurative) A favourable aspect of something that also has an unfavourable aspect.

   Antonym: downside

   • 2013, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (motion picture), Julie Delpy (actor):

     The only upside of being over 35 is that you don't get raped as much.

   • 2023 June 23, Jonathan Freedland, “With even leavers regretting Brexit, there’s one path back to rejoining the EU”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     They said we’d be free of all that tedious European red tape and would take back control of our borders, encouraging anyone agitated by immigration to believe that fewer people would come in. There would be no downside, only upsides.

3. (finance) An upward tendency, especially in a financial market etc.

   Antonym: downside

Derived terms

• upside down

Translations

the highest or uppermost side or portion of something

• Arabic: فَوْق (ar) (fawq)
• Bulgarian: горна страна f (gorna strana)
• Finnish: yläpuoli (fi)
• German: Oberseite (de) f
• Russian: верх (ru) m (verx)
• Slovak: vrchol, vrch
• Turkish: üst taraf

a favourable aspect of something that also has an unfavourable aspect

• Czech: výhoda (cs), klad (cs)
• Finnish: hyvä puoli
• German: Vorteil (de) m, positive Seite f, Schokoladenseite (de) f, gute Seite f
• Russian: плюс (ru) m (pljus)
• Slovak: výhoda, prednosť
• Spanish: lado bueno m, lado positivo m, lado favorable m
• Turkish: avantaj (tr)

an upward tendency, especially in a financial market etc

• Finnish: noususuuntaus
• German: Aufwärtsbewegung (de) f, Aufwärtstrend (de) m, Stärkung (de) f, Erholung (de) f
• Russian: рост (ru) m (rost)

Preposition

upside

1. (informal) On the top of.
   • 2002, Pamela Duncan, Moon Women:

     Ruth Ann clenched her hand around the hairbrush and felt like smacking Ashley upside the head with it. She knew better than to talk that way.