Entry Word: erect

Function: adjective

Meaning: rising straight up <a lone tree remained erect after the terrible tornado had passed>

Synonyms perpendicular, plumb, raised, standing, upright, upstanding, vertical

Related Words elevated, lifted, upended, upraised; freestanding

Near Antonyms prostrate, supine; hanging, sagging, slanted, slanting

Antonyms flat, recumbent