Upright vs Uncorrupt - What's the difference?

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Upright is a related term of uncorrupt.

As adjectives the difference between upright and uncorrupt

is that upright is vertical; erect while uncorrupt is not corrupt; honest, fair.

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.

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 .

Greater in height than breadth.

(figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

Synonyms

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.

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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

uncorrupt

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not corrupt; honest, fair.

What this city needs is an uncorrupt police force.

(archaic) Not having decayed.

An uncorrupt dead body was thought to be a vampire.