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UPSTANDING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does upstanding mean?
• UPSTANDING (adjective)
The adjective UPSTANDING has 1 sense:
1. meriting respect or esteem
Familiarity information: UPSTANDING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Meriting respect or esteem
Synonyms:
solid; upstanding
Context example:
an upstanding member of the community
Similar:
respectable (characterized by socially or conventionally acceptable morals)
Context examples
It touched the ends of his upstanding hair.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They sledded seventy miles up the Yukon, swung to the left into the Stewart River, passed the Mayo and the McQuestion, and held on until the Stewart itself became a streamlet, threading the upstanding peaks which marked the backbone of the continent.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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