upright

Adjective

• 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
    

• of moral excellence
  • a genuinely good person
    
  • a just cause
    
  • an upright and respectable man
    

• in a vertical position; not sloping
  • an upright post
    

Noun

• a piano with a vertical sounding board

• a vertical structural member as a post or stake
  • the ball sailed between the uprights
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  erect , vertical , good , just , unsloped , upright piano