Word Meanings - UPRIGHTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

the quality or state of being upright.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UPRIGHTNESS)

• Honesty
• Integrity
• probity
• uprightness
• straightforwardness
• fairness
• sincerity
• honor
• rectitude
• virtue
• justice
• veracity
• Uprightness
• honesty
• truthfulness
• candor
• single-mindedness
• conscientiousness
• entireness
• completeness
• parity
• impartiality
• right
• reasonableness
• propriety
• desert
• integrity
• Probity
• Soundness
• principle
• Rectitude
• Straightforwardness
• incorruptness

Related words: (words related to UPRIGHTNESS)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• HONESTY
  Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• PROPRIETY
  1. Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property. "Onles this propriety be exiled." Robynson (More's Utopia). So are the proprieties of a wife to be disposed of by her lord, and yet all are for her provisions, it being
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• INTEGRITY
  1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More. 2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with
• CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
  The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• RIGHTEOUS
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
• COMPLETENESS
  The state of being complete.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• DESERTLESS
  Without desert.
• RIGHTEN
  To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17.
• HONOR
  1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
• RIGHT-LINED
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
• FAIRNESS
  The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.
• JUSTICESHIP
  The office or dignity of a justice. Holland.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• FISSIPARITY
  Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
• OVERRIGHTEOUS
  Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.
• AFFRIGHTER
  One who frightens.