verb
intransitive verb
1.
a. : to make up or comprise : amount to — used with to
two and two add up to four
tunes … still don't add up to a piece — Leonard Bernstein
b. : signify , mean — used with to
an uneasiness about whether the universe adds up to anything — Irwin Edman
2.
a. : to make or come to the expected or correct total
the figures wouldn't add up — Charles Dickens
b. : to form an intelligible pattern : be plausible or probable : make sense
he was unaccountable, he didn't add up — Graham Greene
transitive verb
: to form an opinion or judgment of : size up
she could not claim to have added up Constance yet — Arnold Bennett