Look up meaning
Look up is a phrasal verb with 5 meanings. One of them is for a difficult situation or condition to begin improving.
- Past simple
- looked up
- Past participle
- looked up
- -ing form
- looking up
What look up means
improveC1informal
For a difficult situation or condition to begin improving
Things started looking up once the new orders arrived.
4 more meanings of look up are in the Retite app, each with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With look: look after, look forward to, look out, look for, look into, look up to.
With up: wake up, pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, mess up.
Common questions
What does look up mean?
It has 5 meanings. One of them is for a difficult situation or condition to begin improving. The other 4, each with an example and a translation into your language, are in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of look up?
Looked up, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
