Difference between Stand-up and Upright

What is the difference between Stand-up and Upright?

Stand-up as an adjective is honest; honorable. while Upright as an adjective is vertical; erect.

Stand-up

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Honest; honorable. Upright; while standing. Performed while standing although normally done while sitting. Honest; honorable.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A performance of stand-up comedy; jokes delivered standing on a stage A meeting performed while standing up.

Upright

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Vertical; erect.Greater in height than breadth.Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: In or into an upright position.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in American and Rugby football.A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.An upright piano.

Example sentence: The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

We hope you now know whether to use Stand-up or Upright in your sentence.

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