uprightly

1. 1.

   in an honorable manner

   “he acted honorably”

   Synonymshonorably
2. 2.

   in an upright position

Questions about uprightly

What does uprightly mean?

uprightly means "in an honorable manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in uprightly?

uprightly has 3 syllables: u-pright-ly. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for uprightly?

Close synonyms include honorably. 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.

Is uprightly a common word?

uprightly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.