upright
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- A long or flat thing is upright when it is at a right angle to the ground. That means that one end is exactly above the other end.
- Synonym: vertical
- There was so much heavy ice on the tree that the whole tree bent down close to the ground, but after the ice melted, the tree went back upright again.
- Having good morals; doing good things.
- I trust her: she is a perfectly upright person.