Antonyms of adj top-down

1 sense of top-down

Sense 1
top-down (vs. bottom-up) -- (of an approach to a problem that begins at the highest conceptual level and works down to the details; "a top-down analysis might begin by looking at macro-economic trends"; "top-down programming")

bottom-up (vs. top-down) -- (of an approach to a problem that begins with details and works up to the highest conceptual level; "bottom-up parser"; "a bottom-up model of the reading process")

Similarity of adj top-down

1 sense of top-down

Sense 1
top-down (vs. bottom-up) -- (of an approach to a problem that begins at the highest conceptual level and works down to the details; "a top-down analysis might begin by looking at macro-economic trends"; "top-down programming")