Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Final issue; conclusion; end; consummation: as, the upshot of the matter.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
Etymologies
- Earlier upshot, the last shot in an archery contest. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Its main upshot is that everyone knows their height and weight, and can quickly calculate a BMI, while the main downside is that you need a pretty typical frame with a typical fat-muscle-organ breakdown and whatnot.”
I want you to stop stalking "overweight" women. - Feministing
“That suggests you might get a few more decades of Flynn Effect by improving those factors for the poor, but in the long term the upshot is going to be the same if the fertility gap holds.”
“The upshot is more than anything else you will just somewhat close the spreads between treasuries and riskier securities.”
“The upshot is you can stop worrying about philosophical “problems” and also you can have fun refuting classical philosophical arguments.”
“The upshot is that inventory restocking obviously was a big contributor, but this was nonetheless a moderately good report.”
“The upshot is that the urban electorate has passed the rural electorate in size, and the suburban electorate is also associating itself more with the urban electorate.”
“But the upshot is that it can easily be the case that there are only 49 or fewer Senators personally better off with a 50-vote cutoff in any given period. dan says:”
Matthew Yglesias » Ben Nelson Reminisces About When People Cares What He Thinks
“So the upshot is that regulation, not liquidationism, is the only known way to deal with banking crises, and mass nationalizations would have made the political climate in which we try to re-regulate the banks much worse, not better.”
Matthew Yglesias » GOP Turning Pro-Bank Stance Into Big Bucks
“So the upshot is households have been backing down their debt and other financial obligations, but we still have a bit of a mortgage problem.”
“So the upshot is that you might well want to pay attention to what the Austrians are saying about credit (but not politics) during the expansionary part of the cycle.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘upshot’.
-
SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
-
Thresholds
we are all just passing through.
(boundaries, portals and liminal spaces/times)cockcrow, interface, thin line, portal, postern, littoral, portico, porch, stoop, strand, liminal, limen and 304 more...
-
Last Words
Endings, results, and pinnacles. The ideal here is to somehow imply the paradoxical concept of "after-endings".
consequence, aftermath, finality, outcome, postmundane, endgame, redound, cloture, bourne, meridian, memento mori, psychopomp and 72 more...
-
hipshots
overshoots, long shot, earshot, shoot from the hip, bloodshot, mugshot, snapshot, eyeshot, jumpshot, hotshot, shotgun, slapshot and 22 more...
-
SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
-
I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
-
Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
-
Consider the Lobster
By David Foster Wallace
percussive, discursive, lugubrious, docent, assiduously, berm, wag, bonmot, imbroglio, telegraph, fissile, rube and 220 more...
-
newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
-
dyy's Words
ambivalence, irony, double-edged sword, paradox, struggle, plunge, buoy, pigeon-hole, ultimately, status quo, fuel, undermine and 230 more...
-
GRE vocab
martinet, churlish, polyglot, aplomb, dissembler, histrionics, prevarication, ignominy, impugn, fastidious, trenchant, perfunctory and 155 more...
-
Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
corrosion, astonish, solace, ferment, continuum, kinesthetic, permeate, repose, caprice, cardinal, discourse, surrender and 610 more...
-
Magooosh
impugn, repudiate, sardonic, barnstorm, bemoan, unseemly, cornerstone, noisome, malodorous, retroactively, spuriously, spasmodically and 217 more...
-
From Book - SAT & College Dictionary ...
ebb, exotic, immure, abeyance, panegyric, debonair, protege, dissipate, frantic, penitent, abject, edify and 871 more...
-
GRE
predisposed, browbeaten, hegemonic, corollary, mendacity, remnant, futile, touchstone, upshot, intuition, perseverance, perk and 214 more...
-
The Golem's Eye
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, The Golem's Eye.
ordure, widdershins, cop, stipple, ostler, struts, minaret, chemise, remonstrate, concussion, wicket, vamoose and 249 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for upshot.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.