upright

Meanings

Adjective

• Vertical; erect.
• Greater in height than breadth.
• Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
• Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

Adverb

• in or into an upright position

Noun

• Any vertical part of a structure.
• 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.
• An upright arcade game cabinet.

Verb

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

Related

Similar words

• surrect

Origin

• From Middle English upright, uppryght, upriht, from Old English upriht, from Proto-Germanic *upprehtaz, equivalent to up- + right. Cognate with Saterland Frisian apgjucht, West Frisian oprjocht, Dutch oprecht, German Low German uprecht, German aufrecht, Swedish upprätt, Icelandic upprétt.