Definitions For Upstarting

verb

  • A person who has recently begun an activity, become successful, etc., and who does not show proper respect for older and more experienced people
  • A newly successful person, business, etc.

Is Upstarting a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
13
Words with Friends
17

The word Upstarting is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Upstarting in a Sentence

  • A young upstart from Harvard who thinks he knows more than the boss
  • Having made their money in oil decades ago, they consider these billionaire dot-commers mere upstarts

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