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upright
[ uhp-rahyt, uhp-rahyt ]
adjective
- erect or vertical, as in position or posture.
Synonyms: vertical, perpendicular, plumb
Antonyms: horizontal, recumbent
- raised or directed vertically or upward.
- adhering to rectitude; righteous, honest, or just:
an upright person.
Synonyms: honorable
- being in accord with what is right:
upright dealings.
noun
adverb
- in an upright position or direction; vertically.
verb (used with object)
- to make upright.
upright
/ ˈʌpˌraɪt /
adjective
- vertical or erect
- honest, honourable, or just
adverb
- vertically
noun
- a vertical support, such as a stake or post
- short for upright piano
- the state of being vertical
verb
- tr to make upright
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Derived Forms
- ˈupˌrightness, noun
- ˈupˌrightly, adverb
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Other Words From
- uprightly adverb
- uprightness noun
- non·upright adjective noun
- non·uprightly adverb
- non·uprightness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Idioms and Phrases
see bolt upright .Discover More
Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
As I tried to get upright, I realized with horror that the blood was my own.
He slept in an upright position in a custom armchair, so the reasons for his lying down to sleep are open to speculation.
They look like evil corn silos or upright storm sewers or a trio of escaped steroidal church organ pipes wearing party hats.
So why not keep all passengers in the ‘upright position’ when they fly?
In a dim backroom of a mud hut in Save, 82-year-old Teresa Nyirabutunda sits propped upright in bed by her daughter, Francine.
In shape it is curved, like those things for candles attached to upright pianos, but with a weighted foot to hold it firm.
Mrs. Ducksmith, who had sat with overwhelmed head in her hands, started bolt upright, and looked at him like one thunderstruck.
He had a flashlight gun in his right hand, and a photographer's tripod was propped upright between his knees.
The sick woman had raised herself upright, and was stretching her arms towards them.
The boiler was of six wrought-iron upright tubes, one within the other.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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