expanding upon

1. 1.

   adding information or detail

   Synonymsexpansion

   Broaderincrease

   Narroweramplificationannotationsupplementation

Questions about expanding upon

What does expanding upon mean?

expanding upon means "adding information or detail".

What is another word for expanding upon?

Close synonyms include expansion. 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 expanding upon a common word?

expanding upon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.