add up

Questions about add up

What does add up mean?

add up means "develop into". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for add up?

Close synonyms include come, amount, total, tot, tot up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is add up a common word?

add up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.