LIVE UP TO

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does live up to mean? 

• LIVE UP TO (verb)
  The verb LIVE UP TO has 1 sense:

1. meet the requirements or expectations of

  Familiarity information: LIVE UP TO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVE UP TO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meet the requirements or expectations of

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

fulfil; fulfill; live up to; satisfy

Hypernyms (to "live up to" is one way to...):

conform to; fill; fit; fulfil; fulfill; meet; satisfy (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "live up to"):

answer; do; serve; suffice (be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity)

cover (provide for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

I think that friend Hopkins will live up to his reputation, and that we shall have an interesting morning.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This month won’t be the right time to buy electronic products, as they won’t likely live up to your expectations later on as you use them.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And you call me a socialist because I deny equality, because I affirm just what you live up to.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But it was in giving the law and making his mates live up to it, that Buck excelled.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Fruit flies without Mthl10 live up to 25 percent longer," Shears said.

(Defending against environmental stressors may shorten lifespan, National Institutes of Health)

“Look at him, Hump,” Wolf Larsen said to me, look at this bit of animated dust, this aggregation of matter that moves and breathes and defies me and thoroughly believes itself to be compounded of something good; that is impressed with certain human fictions such as righteousness and honesty, and that will live up to them in spite of all personal discomforts and menaces.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

By then, Mercury will be speeding forward—not like last year, when I felt anything you purchased on these bargain days would not live up to your expectations.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There were cowardly suggestions that he should make believe, assume a part; and there were still more cowardly suggestions that warned him he would fail in such course, that his nature was not fitted to live up to it, and that he would make a fool of himself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)