I. | ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ūpriht, from ūp up + riht right — more at up , right
1.
a. : standing up straight on the feet or on one end : being in a vertical position : perpendicular , erect
Sinanthropus was of medium stature and certainly upright — R.W.Murray
b. : marked by erectness of carriage : having good posture
a tall dark girl with that bold upright well-poised figure — Anthony Trollope
c.
(1) : having the main axis or a main part perpendicular
designs of freezers … center around the alternatives of chest and upright freezers — J.A.Mixon & H.D.Johnson
the scribe wrote a large flowing hand … with the individual letters upright and square in formation — Jack Finegan
(2) : not slanting or upside-down : having the right side up
had to have a gyroscope … inside it in order to keep it upright — Edward Sackville-West & Desmond Shawe-Taylor
2. obsolete : supine 1
3. : marked by strong moral rectitude : morally correct
upright women shall associate with no men who drink alcohol — Waldo Frank
his unquestioned integrity and upright innocence — J.G.Cozzens
4. archaic : big , strong — used chiefly of a vagrant
5. obsolete : straight so as to fit either foot
an upright shoe — Robert Burton
6. : having a vertical or upward course
7. : having greater height than width
a very decorative antique Sheraton upright wall mirror — Antiques
upright books
Synonyms:
honest , just , conscientious , scrupulous , honorable : upright may imply strict regard for the right and resolute, thoughtful adherence to high moral principles
they hate all chicanery, all evasiveness and slipperiness. They are upright and downright — H.S.Commager
best described by the old-fashioned word upright. It's a good word, comprises a good many things — all the straight qualities, like loyalty, truthfulness, the right sort of pride — Elizabeth Goudge
honest may describe adherence to truth, candor, straightforwardness, sincerity, fairness, and freedom from fraud and duplicity
the idealism that would build peace and content on honest foundations, and would deny them to none — V.L.Parrington
only a careful study of the evidence will enable us to give an honest answer — M.R.Cohen
the honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile — Robert Burns
just may stress choice of the righteous and equitable
a life unblamable and just — William Cowper
nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation — U.S. Constitution
crime sometimes pays. The just man … continues unaccountably to suffer, and the wicked to flourish like the green bay tree — Weston La Barre
conscientious may indicate habitual painstaking dutiful effort to accord with moral law
the skillful, conscientious schoolmistresses whose lives were spent in trying to inculcate real knowledge — C.H.Grandgent
she took to religion, and her conscientious Christian virtues, practiced with stern inclemency, were the canker of the family — Arnold Bennett
scrupulous describes a very careful, meticulous, and sometimes even anxious adherence to dictates of morality and conscience
not one word that I have said runs counter to the demands of delicate and penetrating accuracy of observation, or of scrupulous fidelity to fact as it appears — J.L.Lowes
the delicate equipoise and scrupulous objectivity which the judge must try to preserve at all times — R.M.Dawson
honorable indicates a holding to codes of honor and sanctioned proprieties
too honorable to lend himself to an accusation which he knew to be false — J.A.Froude
he avoided the mean and tricky: he was always an honorable foe — W.C.Ford
II. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English uprighten, from upright, adjective
: to make upright
III. | ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adverb
Etymology: upright (I)
archaic : vertically upward
for all beneath the moon would I not leap upright — Shakespeare
IV. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun
Etymology: upright (I)
1.
a. obsolete : a vertical face (as of a building)
b. archaic : elevation 5
2. : the state of being upright : perpendicular
a pillar out of upright
3. : something that stands upright: as
a. : a vertical piece of timber in a building
b. : a perpendicular stone, post, or stake
c. : a vertical structural member of a piece of furniture (as a chair) — usually used in plural
d. : the wall down the middle of a brick clamp
e. : a goalpost especially on a football field — usually used in plural
4. : an upright geologic stratum
5. : upright piano