"Get up on" is a phrasal verb used to describe someone's action of standing or rising from a sitting or lying position. However, there are many antonyms for this phrase, which describe different actions. Some of the antonyms include "sit down," "lie down," "stay put," "remain seated," "continue lying," "keep sitting," "stay recumbent," "stay reclined" and "stay flat." Each of these antonyms describe a specific action that is opposite to getting up. While "getting up" suggests movement and action, these antonyms denote laziness, passivity, and inertia. Therefore, it's essential to use these antonyms in a context that suits the situation.

What are the antonyms for Get up on?

• v.

  • mount
  • Unfix
  ,
  • alight
  ,
  • decline
  ,
  • decrease
  ,
  • descend
  ,
  • dismount
  ,
  • drop
  ,
  • fall
  ,
  • lessen
  ,
  • lower
  ,
  • slump
  ,
  • subside
  .

Famous quotes with Get up on

• I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

  Marvin Hamlisch
• It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.

  Christine McVie
• It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.

  Piper Perabo
• When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

  Jerry Reed
• Finally, it was time for him to get up on his feet, and he did so, all ready to bust out with lightning and denunciations.Then he saw what he'd been about to do, and he wiped his forehead, as a man might who's just escaped falling into a pit in the dark. For it was him they'd come for, not only Jabez Stone. He read it in the glitter of their eyes and in the way the stranger hid his mouth with one hand. And if he fought them with their own weapons, he'd fall into their power; he knew that, though he couldn't have told you how.And then he began to speak.

  Stephen Vincent Benét

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