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The state of being honest, honourable, and moral.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- You are responsible only for your own uprightness. See to that and all else will take care of itself. - Miles Williams Mathis
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: integrity, propriety, rectitude, angelicality, angelicalness, angelicity, angelicness, decency, godliness, honesty, honor, probity, righteousness, rightfulness, saintlikeness, saintliness, seemlihood, seemliness, uprightness, virtuousness
Antonyms: none provided
The state of being erect or vertical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: verticality, verticalness
Antonyms: none provided
The product or result of being upright.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rectitude
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: righteousness
position at right angles to the horizon
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: verticality, verticalness, erectness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: position, spatial relation
the property of being upright in posture
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: erectness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stance
Etymology tree English upright Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English uprightness From upright + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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French:
droiture
— state of being honest, honourable, and moral
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French:
intégrité
— state of being honest, honourable, and moral
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French:
rectitude
— state of being honest, honourable, and moral
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German:
Redlichkeit
— state of being honest, honourable, and moral
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German:
Aufrichtigkeit
— state of being honest, honourable, and moral
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German:
Ehrenhaftigkeit
— state of being honest, honourable, and moral
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German:
Anständigkeit
— state of being honest, honourable, and moral
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Irish:
ionracas
— state of being honest, honourable, and moral
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Spanish:
rectitud
— state of being honest, honourable, and moral
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Spanish:
integridad
— state of being honest, honourable, and moral
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Spanish:
honradez
— state of being honest, honourable, and moral
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Spanish:
probidad
— state of being honest, honourable, and moral
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Catalan:
dretor
— state of being erect or vertical
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Catalan:
dretura
— state of being erect or vertical
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French:
aplomb
— state of being erect or vertical
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Spanish:
erguimiento
— state of being erect or vertical
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Spanish:
derechura
— state of being erect or vertical
