Word family noun stand standing adjective standing outstanding upstanding verb stand adverb outstandingly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishupstandingup‧stand‧ing /ʌpˈstændɪŋ/ adjective formal 1 HONESThonest and responsible upstanding young men and women2 standing upright or pointing upwards3 → be upstandingExamples from the Corpus
upstanding• an upstanding citizen• A strong breeze caught the upstanding feathered plumes of her hat and blew it off.• At the kitchen door, the cat, neck-fur upstanding like the spines of a hedgehog, wailed to be let out.• So Gilly was an elder of the church, an upstanding member of the community.• She was a fine upstanding middle-aged lady with sharp eyes and a lucid tongue. 