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Guiltless vs Upright - What's the difference?

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Guiltless is a related term of upright.


As adjectives the difference between guiltless and upright

is that guiltless is free from guilt; innocent while upright is vertical; erect.

As an adverb upright is

in or into an upright position.

As a noun upright is

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

guiltless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Free from guilt; innocent.
  • Without experience or trial; unacquainted (with).
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    upright

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Vertical; erect.
  • I was standing upright , waiting for my orders.
  • * 1608 , William Shakespeare, The merry Deuill of Edmonton , introduction, lines 1–4
  • Fab''[''ell'']'': ?What meanes the tolling of this fatall chime, // O what a trembling horror ?trikes my hart! // My ?tiffned haire ?tands vpright on my head, // As doe the bri?tles of a porcupine.
  • * 1782 , Fanny Burney, Cecilia; or, Memoirs of an Heiress , volume V, Book X, chapter X: “A Termination”, page 372
  • Supported by pillows, ?he ?at almo?t upright .
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  • Greater in height than breadth.
  • (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
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    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • in or into an upright position
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 5 , author=Mark Ashenden , title=Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Chelsea improved, with Salomon Kalou denied by goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey and Didier Drogba hitting the upright .}}
  • A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
  • (informal) An upright piano.
  • Holonyms

    * (word clued by successive letters) double acrostic, triple acrostic