Meanings
present singular third person musters up · participle present mustering up · participle past mustered up · past mustered up
- Look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality, such as strength, energy or courage.
I mustered up all my remaining willpower.
1 more example
Nobody save myself so much as turned to look after him; nor, it grieves me to confess, could even I contrive to muster up any tolerable interest, even by all that the warlike spirit, formerly manifested within that now decrepit shape, had wrought upon our globe.
1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “P.'s Correspondence”, in Mosses from an Old Manse
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Czech sebrat
- sebratto look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality
German aufbringen
- aufbringento look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality
Polish zebrać się, zbierać się
- zebrać sięto look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality
- zbierać sięto look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality
Spanish hacer acopio de, armarse de
- hacer acopio deto look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality
- armarse deto look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality
- acopiarto look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality
- reunirto look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality
Cite this entry
muster up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muster%20up
“muster up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muster%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “muster up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muster%20up.
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