Meaning

3 senses
  1. (transitive)To take the sum of; to total.

    Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost.

    When they added up the vaccine doses from all known and anticipate sources, they didn't have enough.

    determine the sum of

  2. (intransitive)To accumulate; to amount to.

    If you can save even a couple of dollars per day, it will add up to a lot over a year.

  3. (idiomatic, intransitive)To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.

    His story just doesn't add up. Why would he have been at the restaurant the day before the event?

    be reasonable or logical or comprehensible

Examples

78 sentences
  1. Something doesn't add up.

    Щось не сходиться.

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  2. Add up this column of figures.

    deSummiere diese Zahlenreihe!

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  3. Tom added up all the numbers.

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  4. What does all this add up to?

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  5. The bill added up to three thousand dollars.

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Translations

5 languages

Forms

adds up, adding up, added up, added up
Base formadd up · to add up
3rd person singularadds up
Present participleadding up
Past simpleadded up
Past participleadded up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyadd up
he, she, itadds up

Past simpleLesson

all personsadded up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave added up
he, she, ithas added up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill add up

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

28 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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