Usually means: Adhering to moral principles; vertical.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. upright: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. upright: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. upright: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. upright: Collins English Dictionary
  5. upright: Vocabulary.com
  6. Upright, upright: Wordnik
  7. upright: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Upright, upright: Wiktionary
  9. upright: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. upright: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. upright: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. upright: Dictionary.com
  13. upright: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. upright: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Upright (TV series), Upright: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Upright: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. upright: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. upright: Rhymezone
  19. upright: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. upright: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. upright: Free Dictionary
  22. upright: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. upright: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. upright: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. upright: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. upright: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. upright: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. upright: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. upright: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Upright: Bicycle Glossary
  2. Upright: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See uprighted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Vertical; erect.
adjective:  In its proper orientation; not overturned.
adjective:  Greater in height than breadth.
adjective:  (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
adjective:  (of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
adverb:  In or into an upright position.
noun:  Any vertical part of a structure.
noun:  (sports) A goal post.
noun:  (slang) A leg
noun:  A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
noun:  (informal) An upright piano.
noun:  (informal) An upright arcade game cabinet.
noun:  (obsolete, hunting, dialect, British) The tips of the antlers of a young deer.
verb:  (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Short for upright vacuum cleaner.

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