get up

Questions about get up

What does get up mean?

get up means "rise to one's feet". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for get up?

Close synonyms include arise, rise, uprise, stand up, turn out. 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.

What is the opposite of get up?

The recorded antonyms are go to bed.

Is get up a common word?

get up is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.