upright

Vertical; erect

“I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.”

In its proper orientation; not overturned.

“My brother didn't get angry when his son knocked over the lamp; he simply called the boy over and helped him set it upright again.”

Greater in height than breadth.

figurativelyOf good morals; practicing ethical values.

of a golf clubHaving the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

In a vertical position; not sloping

“an upright post”

Of moral excellence

“a genuinely good person”

“a just cause”

“an upright and respectable man”

Upright in position or posture

“an erect stature”

“erect flower stalks”

“for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression”

In or into an upright position.

Any vertical part of a structure.

sportsA goal post.

slangA leg

A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.

informalAn upright piano.

informalAn upright arcade game cabinet.

Short for upright vacuum cleaner.

A vertical structural member as a post or stake

“the ball sailed between the uprights”

A piano with a vertical sounding board

To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).