UPRIGHT

upright

1. [Adjective]: 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"

2. [Adjective]: maintaining an erect position; "standing timber"; "many buildings were still standing"

3. [Noun]: a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights"

4. [Noun]: a piano with a vertical sounding board

5. of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass

6. in a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post"

7. erect in posture; "behind him sat old man Arthur; he was straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back"

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