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Uncommonupright
The correct spelling is upright.
How to pronounce upright
/ˈʌpɹaɪt/
nounIPA: /ˈʌpɹaɪt/
Say it like: Upr-it
The correct spelling is upright. Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports. For example: "I was standing upright, waiting for my orders."
Usage Examples
“I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
- 2.A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- 3.An upright piano.
- 4.Short for upright vacuum cleaner.
verb
- 1.To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
adjective
- 1.Vertical; erect.
- 2.Greater in height than breadth.
- 3.Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
- 4.(of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
adverb
- 1.In or into an upright position
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