adds up
Seems perfectly logical
Adds up means to accumulate into a total: The little expenses add up quickly.
When something adds up, it makes sense or seems plausible: His story doesn't add up.
The phrase can also mean to amount to something significant: All those late nights add up to exhaustion.
Is coherent and logical
- consistentNot varying or contradicting
- logicalBased on valid reasoning
- plausibleAppearing worthy of belief
- credibleWorthy of acceptance
believable · convincing · sound · valid · reasonable · sensible · understandable · clear
Summing items systematically
- totalingCalculating a sum
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- countingDetermining quantity sequentially
- aggregatingCollecting into a total
accumulating · tabulating · summing · computing · quantifying · enumerating · reconciling · compiling
Steadily increasing in degree
- growingIncreasing or enlarging
- increasingBecoming greater in amount
- amassingCollecting in quantity
- accruingGradually increasing amount
snowballing · compounding · multiplying · escalating · collecting · gathering · rising · swelling
makes sense
Is coherent and logical
- consistentNot varying or contradicting
- logicalBased on valid reasoning
- plausibleAppearing worthy of belief
credible · believable · convincing · sound · valid · reasonable · sensible · understandable · clear · intuitive
tallying
Summing items systematically
- totalingCalculating a sum
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- countingDetermining quantity sequentially
aggregating · accumulating · tabulating · summing · computing · quantifying · enumerating · reconciling · compiling · itemizing
mounting
Steadily increasing in degree
- growingIncreasing or enlarging
- increasingBecoming greater in amount
- amassingCollecting in quantity
accruing · snowballing · compounding · multiplying · escalating · collecting · gathering · rising · swelling · ballooning
- mental actionsthinks, considers, understands, perceives, recognizes
adds updiminishes
Becomes smaller or weaker
dwindles · decreases · chips away · erodes · dissipates
up, add, addition, added, adding, adds, additive, additionally, adder