Synonyms for upright
ˈʌpˌraɪt, ʌpˈraɪtup·right

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1. upright

   One who is honest in the ordinary sense acts or is always disposed to act with careful regard for the rights of others, especially in matters of business or property; one who is honorable scrupulously observes the dictates of a personal honor that is higher than any demands of mercantile law or public opinion, and will do nothing unworthy of his own inherent nobility of soul. The honest man does not steal, cheat, or defraud; the honorable man will not take an unfair advantage that would be allowed him, or will make a sacrifice which no one could require of him, when his own sense of right demands it. One who is honest in the highest and fullest sense is scrupulously careful to adhere to all known truth and right even in thought. In this sense honest differs from honorable as having regard rather to absolute truth and right than to even the highest personal honor. Compare CANDID; JUSTICE.

   Synonyms:
   candid, equitable, fair, faithful, frank, genuine, good, honest, honorable, ingenuous, just, sincere, straightforward, true, trustworthy, trusty

   Antonyms:
   deceitful, dishonest, disingenuous, faithless, false, fraudulent, hypocritical, lying, mendacious, perfidious, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, unscrupulous, untrue

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1. upright

   Synonyms:
   vertical, erect, perpendicular, honest, honorable, pure, principled, conscientious, just, fair, equitable

   Antonyms:
   inverted, inclined, dishonest, dishonorable, corrupt, unprincipled, unconscientious

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1. upright, verticalnoun

   a vertical structural member as a post or stake

   "the ball sailed between the uprights"

   Synonyms:
   upright piano, vertical

   Antonyms:
   inclined, horizontal, unrighteous

2. upright, upright pianoadjective

   a piano with a vertical sounding board

   Synonyms:
   upright piano, vertical

   Antonyms:
   horizontal, unrighteous, inclined

3. upright, unslopedadjective

   in a vertical position; not sloping

   "an upright post"

   Synonyms:
   good, unsloped, vertical, erect, just

   Antonyms:
   inclined, horizontal, unrighteous

4. good, just, uprightadjective

   of moral excellence

   "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"

   Synonyms:
   dear, good, beneficial, in effect(p), unspoiled, skillful, sound, secure, serious, effective, salutary, in force(p), vertical, skilful, practiced, equitable, estimable, expert, just, erect, proficient, full, honest, unsloped, respectable, undecomposed, unspoilt, fair, ripe, safe, adept, honorable, dependable, well(p), right, near

   Antonyms:
   horizontal, inclined, unrighteous

5. erect, vertical, uprightadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   just, vertical, good, perpendicular, erect, tumid, unsloped

   Antonyms:
   inclined, horizontal, unrighteous

Matched Categories

1. • Structural Member

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1. uprightadjective

   Synonyms:
   erect, perpendicular, vertical, plumb, on end

2. uprightadjective

   Synonyms:
   honest, just, honorable, conscientious, virtuous, good, pure, straightforward, not mean, not base

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1. uprightadjective

   Synonyms:
   erect, perpendicular, vertical, honorable, honest

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1. List of paraphrases for "upright":

   vertical, arco, arc, sissy, rear, fair, straight, vertically

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1. Benjamin Franklin:

   Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

2. Kee Kim:

   It’s not just that standing and sitting upright looks better. When you slouch forward at your desk, you are putting almost twice as much strain on the disks than if you were sitting straight up.

3. Michael Gresty:

   The reason that we can't understand these motions; the brain if you like can't understand these motions, is that there's continual conflict between what is upright and whether you should lean to balance yourself in the environment or whether you're actually experiencing a sideways acceleration force. You imagine being on a bicycle or a motorbike; you go round a corner, you lean into the corner which remains perfectly upright in physics. You don't so that in a car, you don't do that on a ship - you're actually struggling to find out what is upright and what's the best way of dealing with it.

4. Doris Lessing:

   All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

5. Doris Lessing:

   All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.