a. | 1. | In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; | |||
2. | Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; | ||||
3. | Conformable to moral rectitude. | ||||
4. | Stretched out face upward; flat on the back. | ||||
5. | (Golf) Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
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n. | 1. | Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame. | |||
2. | (Basketwork) A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins. Called in full | ||||
3. | (Football) the vertical part of a goalpost, especially the part above the horizontal bar; |
Noun | 1. | upright - a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights" Synonyms: vertical |
2. | upright - a piano with a vertical sounding board Synonyms: upright piano | |
Adj. | 1. | upright - in a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post" Synonyms: unsloped |
2. | upright - of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass | |
3. | upright - erect in posture; "behind him sat old man Arthur; he was straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back" | |
4. | upright - maintaining an erect position; "standing timber"; "many buildings were still standing" Synonyms: standing | |
5. | upright - upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright" |