'Upside' definitions:
Definition of 'upside'
(from WordNet)
noun
The highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk"; "only the top side of the box was painted" [syn: top, top side, upper side, upside]
Definition of 'Upside'
From: GCIDE
- Upside \Up"side`\, n.
- 1. The upper side; the part that is uppermost. [1913 Webster]
- 2. the benefits; the positive features; -- said of a situation or event that has both positive (good) and negative (bad) aspects. [PJC]
- To be upsides with, to be even with. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. --T. Hughes.
- Upside down. [Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down, literally, up as down.] With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also. --Acts xvii. 6. [1913 Webster]