Definition of "upright" in English

adjective

1. Vertical; erect.

   • Supported by pillows, ſhe ſat almoſt upright.

2. In its proper orientation; not overturned.

   • 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.

3. Greater in height than breadth.

4. (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

5. (of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

adverb

1. In or into an upright position.

   • I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.

noun

1. Any vertical part of a structure.

2. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.

3. (informal) Short for upright piano

4. (informal) Short for upright arcade game cabinet

5. Ellipsis of upright vacuum cleaner.

6. (obsolete, hunting, dialect, British) The tips of the antlers of a young deer.

verb

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