upright

upright
    adj 1: in a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post"
           [syn: {upright}, {unsloped}]
    2: of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just
       cause"; "an upright and respectable man" [syn: {good},
       {just}, {upright}]
    3: 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" [syn: {erect}, {vertical}, {upright}] [ant:
       {unerect}]
    n 1: a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball
         sailed between the uprights" [syn: {upright}, {vertical}]
    2: a piano with a vertical sounding board [syn: {upright},
       {upright piano}]
    

Upright \Up"right`\, a. [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.
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            With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            All have their ears upright.          --Spenser.
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   2. Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man
      upright in all his ways.
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            And that man [Job] was perfect and upright. --Job i.
                                                  1.
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   3. Conformable to moral rectitude.
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            Conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure.
                                                  --J. M. Mason.
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   4. Stretched out face upward; flat on the back. [Obs.] " He
      lay upright." --Chaucer.
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   5. (Golf) Designating a club in which the head is
      approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
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   {Upright drill} (Mach.), a drilling machine having the
      spindle vertical.
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   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.
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Upright \Up"right`\, n.
   1. Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a
      building. See Illust. of {Frame}.
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   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 {upright
      shave}.
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   3. (Football) the vertical part of a goalpost, especially the
      part above the horizontal bar; as, a field goal directly
      between the uprights.
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244 Moby Thesaurus words for "upright":
      Christian, Klavier, Samson post, Steinway, angelic, arrowlike,
      at attention, azimuth circle, baby grand, baluster, balustrade,
      banister, base, blameless, bolt upright, caryatid, cast up,
      cembalo, clarichord, clavicembalo, clavichord, clavicittern,
      clavicymbal, clavicytherium, clavier, clean, colonnade, column,
      concert grand, conscientious, cottage piano, couched harp,
      creditable, dado, dead straight, decent, die, direct, doorjamb,
      doorpost, downright, dulcimer harpsichord, elevate, elevated,
      endways, endwise, equitable, erect, erectly, estimable, ethical,
      even, exalted, exemplary, fair, flat, footstalk, full of integrity,
      gatepost, godly, good, grand, grand piano, hammer dulcimer,
      harmonichord, harpsichord, high, high-minded, high-principled,
      highly respectable, hitching post, honest, honorable, horizontal,
      immaculate, impartial, in a line, incorruptible, inviolate,
      irreproachable, jack, jamb, just, king post, law-abiding,
      law-loving, law-revering, level, lift up, lifted, lineal, linear,
      lofty, manichord, manichordon, manly, melodion, melopiano,
      milepost, monochord, moral, mullion, newel-post, noble, normal,
      on end, on stilts, orthodiagonal, pair of virginals, parlor grand,
      pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, perpendicular, perpendicularly,
      pianette, pianino, piano, piano-violin, pianoforte, pier, pilaster,
      pile, piling, pillar, pitch, plinth, plumb, pole, post, principled,
      pure, queen-post, raise, raise aloft, raise up, raised, rampant,
      rear, rear aloft, rearing, rectilineal, rectilinear, reputable,
      respectable, right, right angle, right on end, right-minded,
      righteous, ruler-straight, saintlike, saintly, scrupulous,
      seraphic, set up, shaft, signpost, smooth, snubbing post, socle,
      sostinente pianoforte, spinet, spotless, square piano, staff,
      stainless, stalk, stanchion, stand, stand upright, stand-up,
      standard, standing up, stem, sterling, stile, stilted, straight,
      straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, straight-up,
      straightforward, streamlined, subbase, sublime, surbase, true,
      true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled,
      true-spirited, truehearted, trunk, trustworthy, unbending, unbent,
      unblemished, unbowed, unbroken, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, uncurved,
      undefiled, undeflected, undeviating, undistorted, unimpeachable,
      uninterrupted, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unswerving,
      untarnished, unturned, up, up on end, upcast, upend, upended,
      upflung, upheave, uplift, uplifted, upraise, upraised, uprear,
      upreared, upright piano, uprighteous, uprightly, upstanding,
      upstandingly, upthrown, upwards, vertical, vertical circle,
      violin piano, virginal, virtuous, worthy, yeomanly