Downright vs. Upright

Downrightadjective

(obsolete) Directed vertically; coming straight down.

Downrightadjective

Directly to the point; plain

Downrightadjective

Using plain direct language; accustomed to express opinions directly and bluntly; blunt.

Downrightadjective

Complete; absolute

Downrightadverb

Really; actually; quite

Downrightadverb

(obsolete) Straight down; perpendicularly.

Downrightadverb

(obsolete) Plainly, unambiguously; directly.

Downrightadverb

(obsolete) Without delay; at once.

Downrightadverb

Straight down; perpendicularly.

Downrightadverb

In plain terms; without ceremony.

Downrightadverb

Without delay; at once; completely.

Downrightadjective

Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.

Downrightadjective

Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.

Downrightadjective

characterized by plain blunt honesty;

Downrightadjective

complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers;

Downrightadverb

thoroughgoing;

Uprightadjective

Vertical; erect.

Uprightadjective

Greater in height than breadth.

Uprightadjective

(figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

Uprightadjective

(of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

Uprightadverb

in or into an upright position

Uprightnoun

Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.

Uprightnoun

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

Uprightnoun

(informal) An upright piano.

Uprightnoun

Short for upright vacuum cleaner.

Uprightverb

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

Uprightadjective

In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.

Uprightadjective

Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.

Uprightadjective

Conformable to moral rectitude.

Uprightadjective

Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.

Uprightadjective

Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

Uprightnoun

Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.

Uprightnoun

A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins. Called in full upright shave.

Uprightnoun

the vertical part of a goalpost, especially the part above the horizontal bar; as, a field goal directly between the uprights.

Uprightnoun

a vertical structural member as a post or stake;

Uprightnoun

a piano with a vertical sounding board

Uprightadjective

in a vertical position; not sloping;

Uprightadjective

of moral excellence;

Uprightadjective

erect in posture;

Uprightadjective

maintaining an erect position;

Uprightadjective

upright in position or posture;