Upstream Synonyms and Antonyms

ŭpstrēm
In the direction against a stream's current
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. downstream
Toward the source or against the current
(Adverb)
Synonyms:
  1. upriver
Antonyms:
  1. downriver
  2. downstream
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Words Related to Upstream

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. down-stream
  2. up-stream
  3. seawards
  4. eastward
  5. upslope
  6. northward

Upstream Sentence Examples

  • Brutus wandered upstream, pausing to lap at the cool water.

  • Possibly this would be used to sail the boat upstream.

  • The Missouri is navigable for small boats to Fort Benton in Chouteau county, but farther upstream near Great Falls, Cascade county, to which it is navigable at high water, it falls 512 ft.

  • It had been at first intended to raise the dam to a height which would have involved the submergence, for some months of every year, of the Philae temples, situated on an island just upstream of the dam.

  • Tensile stresses (indicated by broken lines on the diagram) are shown at the upstream toe notwithstanding that the line of resistance is well within the middle third of the section.

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