UPRIGHT

upright, unsloped

(adjective) in a vertical position; not sloping; “an upright post”

erect, vertical, upright

(adjective) 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”

good, just, upright

(adjective) of moral excellence; “a genuinely good person”; “a just cause”; “an upright and respectable man”

upright, upright piano

(noun) a piano with a vertical sounding board

upright, vertical

(noun) a vertical structural member as a post or stake; “the ball sailed between the uprights”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Proper noun

Upright (plural Uprights)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Upright is the 28362^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 842 individuals. Upright is most common among White (95.49%) individuals.

Etymology

Adjective

upright (comparative more upright, superlative most upright)

Vertical; erect.

Greater in height than breadth.

(figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

(of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

Synonyms

• (vertical, erect): surrect (obsolete, rare)

Adverb

upright (comparative more upright, superlative most upright)

in or into an upright position

Noun

upright (plural uprights)

Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.

A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.

(informal) An upright piano.

Short for upright vacuum cleaner.

Holonyms

• (word clued by successive letters): double acrostic, triple acrostic

Verb

upright (third-person singular simple present uprights, present participle uprighting, simple past and past participle uprighted)

(transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).

Source: Wiktionary

Up"right`, a. Etym: [AS. upright, uppriht. See Up, and Right, a.]

1. In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree. With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden. All have their ears upright. Spenser.

2. Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways. And that man [Job] was perfect and upright. Job i. 1.

3. Conformable to moral rectitude. Conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure. J. M. Mason.

4. Stretched out face upward; flat on the back. [Obs.] " He lay upright." Chaucer. Upright drill (Mach.), a drilling machine having the spindle vertical.

Note: This word and its derivatives are usually pronounced in prose with the accent on the first syllable. But they are frequently pronounced with the accent on the second in poetry, and the accent on either syllable is admissible.

Up"right`, n.

Definition: Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition