Ritzy vs Upscale - What's the difference?
ritzy | upscale |
elegant and luxurious
* 1997 , Aileen Schumacher, Engineering for Murder , page 69
(US) Marked by wealth or quality; high-class.
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*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
To increase in size, to scale up.
As adjectives the difference between ritzy and upscale
is that ritzy is elegant and luxurious while upscale is marked by wealth or quality; high-class.As a verb upscale is
to increase in size, to scale up.ritzy
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Adjective
(er)- His list of sexual contacts was quite long, and included ladies from some of the ritzier establishments of ill repute across the border.
upscale
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Adjective
(en adjective)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.
