Difference between Upright and Righteous

What is the difference between Upright and Righteous?

Upright as an adjective is vertical; erect. while Righteous as an adjective is free from sin or guilt

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: If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you.

Righteous

Part of speech: noun

Definition: righteous people, considered as a group

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: free from sin or guiltmoral and virtuous, suggesting sanctimoniousjustified morally(slang US) awesome

Example sentence: Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.

We hope you now know whether to use Upright or Righteous in your sentence.

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