upright
Meaning of upright
noun
- 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.
- An upright piano.
- Short for upright vacuum cleaner.
verb
To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
adjective- Vertical; erect.
I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.
- Greater in height than breadth.
- Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
- (of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
adverb
In or into an upright position
Information about upright
- The plural form of upright is: uprights.
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Hyphenation of upright
up-right
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- upright is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
upright synonyms
Meaning unsloped:
Meaning good:
Meaning erect:
Meaning vertical:
Translation of upright
- French: vertical, verticale, intègre
- German: vertikal, senkrecht, lotrecht, tugendhaft, integer
- Spanish: vertical, cabal, íntegro, íntegra
- Italian: perpendicolare, verticale, integro, virtuoso, retto
Words that rhyme with upright
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