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   Up·right

   /ˈəpˌrīt/

   

   adjective

   • 1. (of a person) sitting or standing with the back straight: "an upright posture"
   • ▪ vertical; erect: "the posts must be in an upright position"
   • ▪ (of a piano) having vertical strings. Similar verticalperpendicularplumbstraight (up)straight up and downbolt uprighterecton endstanding uprearingrampanton one's feetOpposite horizontal
   • ▪ greater in height than breadth: "an upright freezer"
   • ▪ denoting a device designed to be used in a vertical position: "an upright vacuum cleaner"
   • 2. (of a person or their behavior) strictly honorable or honest: "an upright member of the community" Similar honesthonorableupstandingrespectablereputablehigh-mindedlaw-abidingright-mindedworthymoralethicalrighteousdecentgoodvirtuousprincipledhigh-principledof principlepropercorrectjustnobleincorruptibleanticorruptionconscientiousOpposite dishonorablecrooked

   adverb

   • 1. in or into a vertical position: "she was sitting upright in bed"

   noun

   • 1. a post or rod fixed vertically, especially as a structural support: "the stone uprights of the parapet"
   • ▪ the vertical posts extending up from the crossbar of the goalpost, between which a field goal must pass to score.
   • 2. an upright piano: "a first-class upright that would satisfy an amateur pianist"

   Word Origin Old Englishupriht, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch oprecht and German aufrecht (see up, right).

   Derivatives

   • 1. uprightly adverb

   Scrabble Points: 13

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   • P

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   • R

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   • H

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   • T

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