upward trend
Steadily increasing direction
An upward trend is a pattern of sustained increase over time.
The phrase appears most often in financial and economic contexts—stock prices, inflation rates, employment figures—but applies to any measurable quantity showing consistent growth: The upward trend in housing costs shows no sign of slowing.
Opposite of downward trend.
- riseMove to higher position
- on the riseBecoming greater or more
- climbAscend using effort
- growthIncrease in size
- surgeSudden powerful increase
moving up · ascent · going up · momentum · increase · price increase · rally · spike · gain · progress · soaring · escalation · boost · uptick · year over year · incline · acceleration · bullish
- gradual progressbaby steps, inching, crawling, creeping, steady growth
- progressprogress, in progress, promotion, raise, making progress
- Going Upclimb, rise, rising, soaring, lifting
- positive signsgreen light, thumbs up, checkmark, approval, good news
upward trenddecline
Decrease or refuse
downturn · downtrend · downward slope · descent · decrease
upward trendstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
flatline · plateau · stability · equilibrium · no change
upward, trend, ward, wards, upwards, trends, trending, trended, trendy