measure up

1. 1.

   prove capable or fit; meet requirements

   Synonymsqualify

   Broadersuffice

Questions about measure up

What does measure up mean?

measure up means "prove capable or fit; meet requirements".

What is another word for measure up?

Close synonyms include qualify. 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 measure up a common word?

measure up 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.