Downright vs. Upright — What's the Difference?

Thoroughgoing; unequivocal

Being in a vertical position or direction

Forthright; candid.

Erect in posture or carriage

Thoroughly; absolutely.

Adhering strictly to moral principles; righteous.

(obsolete) Directed vertically; coming straight down.

Designed with the pedals below the seat to allow an erect posture rather than a reclining one

Directly to the point; plain

Vertically

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

A perpendicular position; verticality.

Complete; absolute

Something, such as a goalpost, that stands upright.

Really; actually; quite

An upright piano.

(obsolete) Straight down; perpendicularly.

An upright bicycle.

(obsolete) Plainly, unambiguously; directly.

To restore to an upright position

(obsolete) Without delay; at once.

Vertical; erect

Straight down; perpendicularly.

In its proper orientation; not overturned.

In plain terms; without ceremony.

Greater in height than breadth.

Without delay; at once; completely.

(figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

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

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

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

In or into an upright position.

Characterized by plain blunt honesty;

Any vertical part of a structure.

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

(sports) A goal post.

Thoroughgoing;

(slang) A leg

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.

(informal) An upright arcade game cabinet.

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

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

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

Conformable to moral rectitude.

Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.

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

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

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.

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

A vertical structural member as a post or stake;

A piano with a vertical sounding board

In a vertical position; not sloping;

Of moral excellence;

Erect in posture;

Maintaining an erect position;

Upright in position or posture;