upright meaning
EN
[ˈʌpraɪt] 
US - NounPLuprights
- Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
- Chelsea improved, with Salomon Kalou denied by goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey and Didier Drogba hitting the upright.
- A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- (informal) An upright piano.
- Short for upright vacuum cleaner.
- Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
- VerbSGuprightsPRuprightingPT, PPuprighted
- (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
- (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
- AdjectiveCOMmore uprightSUPmost upright
- Vertical; erect.
- I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.
- 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.
- Vertical; erect.
- AdverbCOMmore uprightSUPmost upright
- in or into an upright position.
- in or into an upright position.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- In a seated upright position, participants breathed into a non-rebreathing technician controlled pneumatic switching Y-valve that was connected to a pneumotachometer and mass spectrometer.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of upright in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Adjectives
- en uprightness
- en uprights
- en uprighted
- en uprightly
- en uprighting
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "upright" is an adjective. It's also an adverb. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.