upstanding

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   honest, respectable, and deserving of trust or approval

   She was known as an upstanding member of the community.

2. 2
   adj

   standing upright or rising prominently above the surroundings

   The travelers navigated by the upstanding peaks on the horizon.

From up + standing. The literal sense describes something erect or rising; the moral sense continues the longstanding figurative association between an upright posture and honest character.

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