upright
Plural: uprights
Noun
- a vertical structural member as a post or stake
- "the ball sailed between the uprights"
- a piano with a vertical sounding board
- Any vertical part of a structure.
- Any vertical part of a structure.
- A goal post.
- Any vertical part of a structure.
- A leg.
- A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- Short for upright piano
- Short for upright arcade game cabinet
- Ellipsis of upright vacuum cleaner.
- The tips of the antlers of a young deer.
Adjective Satellite
- in a vertical position; not sloping
- "an upright post"
- of moral excellence
- "an upright and respectable man"
Adjective
- upright in position or posture
- "he sat bolt upright"
Adj
- Vertical; erect.
- In its proper orientation; not overturned.
- Greater in height than breadth.
- Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
- Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
Adv
- In or into an upright position.
Verb
Verb Forms: uprighted, uprighting, uprights
- To set or make something stand vertically.
- To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
Examples
- He carefully chose a word that would UPRIGHT his score and give him the lead.
- My brother didn't get angry when his son knocked over the lamp; he simply called the boy over and helped him set it upright again.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English upright, uppryght, upriht, from Old English upriht (“upright; erect”), from Proto-Germanic *upprehtaz, equivalent to up- + right. Cognate with Saterland Frisian apgjucht (“upright”), West Frisian oprjocht (“upright”), Dutch oprecht (“upright”), German Low German uprecht (“upright”), German aufrecht (“upright”), Swedish upprätt (“upright”), Icelandic uppréttur (“upright”).
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
upright: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordupright: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
upright: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary