upscale
/ˈʌpskeɪl
/ /ʌpˈskeɪl/chiefly North American
adjective
Relatively expensive and designed to appeal to affluent consumers; upmarket: Hawaii’s upscale boutique hotels...
- My daughter is a junior at Walt Whitman High School, an upscale public school in Bethesda, Maryland.
- New Hampshire is among the most upscale Democratic electorates you'll find anywhere in the country.
- Prices for these upscale public courses range from the eminently affordable to bordering on the budget buster.
adverb
Towards the more expensive or affluent sector of the market: once known as the low-cost cousin of beef, fish has moved upscale...
- Volkswagen is trying to move upscale too, with only slightly better luck.
- When I feel like going a bit upscale this is where I land.
- What syndicated studies there are tend to skew upscale and can't be generalized to the total population.
verb [with object]
1Increase the size or scale of: for the most part games are upscaled to fit your TV screen (as adjective upscaled) an upscaled version of the image...
- Colors are accurate, but detail is weak; the image looks like an upscaled DVD.
- The game looks great just upscaled for the iPad.
- For those with a huge library of DVDs, you will not be disappointed with the set's sharp and clean upscaled video.
1.1Raise the standard or quality of: we wanted to upscale the decor...
- Even complimentary snacks at the bar have been upscaled.
- "We've upscaled the area," Nielsen said.
- This approach highlights a new trend in the process of upgrading or upscaling the hardware environment.
Rhymes
- metal drift
- metalegal
- metalepsis
- metaleptic
- metaleptical
- metaleptically
- metal-evaporated tape
- metalevel
- metal fatigue
- metalflake
- metalforming
- metal gage
- metal gauge
- metalhead
- metalick
- metalik
- metalimnetic
- metalimnic
- metalimnion
- metalingual
- metalinguist
- metalinguistic
- metalinguistically
- metalinguistic awareness
- metalinguistics