Upright
[n] a piano with a vertical sounding board
[n] a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights"
[adj] erect in posture; "behind him sat old man Arthur; he was straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back"
[adj] in a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post"
[adj] 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"
[adj] 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
[adj] maintaining an erect position; "standing timber"; "many buildings were still standing"
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Synonyms
erect, erectile, fastigiate, good, just, orthostatic, passant(ip), perpendicular, rampant(ip), rearing, righteous, standing, standing(a), stand-up, statant(ip), straight, straight-backed, unbent, unbowed, unsloped, upright, upright piano, vertical, vertic