erect

1. 1.

   upright in position or posture

   “an erect stature”

   “erect flower stalks”

   “for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression”

   “a column still vertical amid the ruins”

   “he sat bolt upright”

   Synonymsverticalupright

   Antonymsunerect

   Similarerectilefastigiateorthostaticpassantrampantsemi-climbingsemi-erectsemi-upright
2. 2.

   of sexual organs; stiff and rigid

   Synonymstumid

   Similarhard

   physiology

Other forms of erect

past tense

erected·

present participle

erecting·

third person

erects·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about erect

What does erect mean?

erect means "construct, build, or erect". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in erect?

erect has 2 syllables: e-rect. The stress falls on "rect". In IPA it is /ɪˈɹɛkt/.

What is another word for erect?

Close synonyms include raise, rear, set up, put up, rear. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of erect?

The recorded antonyms are unerect.

Is erect a common word?

erect is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with erect?

2 words rhyme with erect. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.