Search

upright🔊

Vertical; erect.

In its proper orientation; not overturned.

Greater in height than breadth.

(figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

💬 Quotations
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

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

In or into an upright position.

Any vertical part of a structure.

(sports) A goal post.

(slang) A leg.

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

(informal, music) A piano whose strings are vertical.

(informal) Upright arcade game cabinet.

Upright vacuum cleaner.

(obsolete, hunting, dialect, British) The tips of the antlers of a young deer.

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

🎯
Track Your Progress
Sign in to study this word
🔑 Sign In
Join Word Warriors to build your vocabulary and track your progress.