upright

== English == === Alternative forms === vpright (obsolete) === 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”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʌpɹaɪt/ === Adjective === upright (comparative more upright, superlative most upright) Vertical; erect. 1782, Fanny Burney, Cecilia; or, Memoirs of an Heiress, volume V, Book X, chapter X: “A Termination”, page 372 Supported by pillows, ſhe ſat almoſt upright. In its proper orientation; not overturned. Greater in height than breadth. (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values. (of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft. ==== Synonyms ==== (vertical, erect): orthograde, surrect (obsolete, rare) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adverb === upright (comparative more upright, superlative most upright) In or into an upright position. ==== Translations ==== === Noun === upright (plural uprights) Any vertical part of a structure. (sports) A goal post. (slang) A leg. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic. (informal) Short for upright piano (informal) Short for upright arcade game cabinet Ellipsis of upright vacuum cleaner. (obsolete, hunting, dialect, British) The tips of the antlers of a young deer. ==== Holonyms ==== (word clued by successive letters): double acrostic, triple acrostic ==== Related terms ==== upright piano ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== Joseph Wright (editor). The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: A-E.. "crocket". Pg. 801. 1898. === Verb === upright (third-person singular simple present uprights, present participle uprighting, simple past and past participle uprighted) (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen). === References === “upright, adv.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.