Antonyms 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.

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

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

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1. upright

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

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

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1. • Structural Member

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1. upright, verticalnoun

   a vertical structural member as a post or stake

   "the ball sailed between the uprights"

   Antonyms:
   inclined, horizontal, unrighteous

   Synonyms:
   upright piano, vertical

2. upright, upright pianoadjective

   a piano with a vertical sounding board

   Antonyms:
   horizontal, unrighteous, inclined

   Synonyms:
   upright piano, vertical

3. upright, unslopedadjective

   in a vertical position; not sloping

   "an upright post"

   Antonyms:
   inclined, horizontal, unrighteous

   Synonyms:
   good, unsloped, vertical, erect, just

4. good, just, uprightadjective

   of moral excellence

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

   Antonyms:
   horizontal, inclined, unrighteous

   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

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"

   Antonyms:
   inclined, horizontal, unrighteous

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

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1. uprightadjective

   Synonyms:
   erect, perpendicular, vertical, honorable, honest

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1. rapistadjective

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How to use upright in a sentence?

1. Sigmar Gabriel:

   Many people in Germany and Europe are mourning this courageous, upright and great Social Democrat, the architect of German unity, a politician who worked for peace, and a European, the Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt and Egon Bahr was a crucial condition for overcoming the division of Germany and Europe.

2. Livonia Police Capt. Ron Taig:

   He's trying to swim. He's trying to get in a position to get upright. There's a lot of people playing. I think he gets lost in the confusion.

3. Thomas à Kempis:

   If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

4. 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.

5. Victor Hugo:

   To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

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