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Accessible vs Upscale - What's the difference?

accessible | upscale |

As adjectives the difference between accessible and upscale

is that accessible is easy of access or approach; approachable while upscale is (us) marked by wealth or quality; high-class.

As a verb upscale is

to increase in size, to scale up.

accessible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Easy of access or approach; approachable.
  • an accessible town or mountain
  • Easy to get along with.
  • Open to the influence of.
  • * Minds accessible to reason. - (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
  • Obtainable; to be got at.
  • * The best information ... at present accessible . - (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
  • (art, literature) Easily understood.
  • Capable of being used or seen.
  • Usage notes

    * (open to influence) Followed by to .

    Antonyms

    * inaccessible

    Derived terms

    * accessibility * accessibly

    upscale

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (US) Marked by wealth or quality; high-class.
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
  • In Rio de Janeiro, thousands protested in a gritty area far from the city’s upscale seaside districts. In other cities, demonstrators blocked roads, barged into City Council meetings or interrupted sessions of local lawmakers, clapping loudly and sometimes taking over the microphone.
  • *2002 "This strategy [of rotating the garage with respect to the street] has become popular in many upscale housing developments nationwide primarily becaues it de-emphasizes the garage and makes the house look more like their traditional counterparts from the turn of the last century." — Sarah Susanka, Not So Big Solutions for Your Home
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To increase in size, to scale up.
  • Anagrams

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