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What is the adjective for erect?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb erect which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

erect
  1. Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
  2. Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
  3. (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
  4. (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
  5. Watchful; alert.
  6. (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
  7. Synonyms:
      8. upright, perpendicular, vertical, straight, raised, standing, plumb, cocked, firm, rigid, upstanding, elevated, rampant, stiff, arrect, erectile, bristling, standing up, bolt upright, pricked-up, stand-up, standing up on end, standing at attention, upended, on end, straight up and down, rearing, straight-up, straight up, upward, perky, steep, sheer, erected, on one's feet, up-and-down, in a standing position, straight down, up and down, at right angles, unbent, unbowed, engorged, enlarged, swollen, tumescent, hard … more
  8. Examples:
      9. “Houses to the west were built on the narthex of the church, possibly by using some of the erect walls of the church.”
      “She desperately hoped that some makeup would be able to disguise the erect pimple on her face.”
erectopatent
  1. (botany) Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.
  2. (zoology) Standing partially spread and erect; said of the wings of certain insects.
erectile
  1. Capable of being raised to an upright position.
  2. Of tissue: capable of filling with blood and becoming rigid.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. erect, upright, perpendicular, vertical, straight, raised, standing, plumb, cocked, firm, rigid, upstanding, elevated, rampant, stiff, arrect, bristling, standing up, bolt upright, pricked-up, stand-up, standing up on end, standing at attention … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Symptoms of hyperprolactinaemia include amenorrhoea, galactorrhoea, infertility, loss of libido and erectile dysfunction.”
      “Add to this stained teeth, bad breath, red eyes, lank hair, discoloured fingers and erectile dysfunction, and the list grows alarming.”
      “Threespine sticklebacks are laterally compressed, fusiform shaped fish with three sharp, erectile spines at the forward part of the dorsal fin.”
erectogenic
  1. (physiology) That causes erection (of erectile tissue)
erective
  1. Making erect or upright; raising.
erectable
  1. Capable of being erected or raised up.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. erigible
  3. Examples:
      4. “In some, these form an erectable crest on their necks and the tops of their head.”
      “Instead of using tents and erectable buildings, base personnel could utilize special versions of the module for shelter.”
      “This family of tents will be a series of quickly erectable tents designed to be used either in a stand-alone mode or connected to other tents.”
erectionless
  1. that has no erection
erected
  1. simple past tense and past participle of erect
  2. Synonyms:
      3. created, built, constructed, forged, made, produced, actualized, concocted, constituted, brought into being, brought into existence, brought to pass, catalyzed, caused to be, coined, effectuated, gave rise to, generated, originated, catalysed, did, got going, knocked off, knocked together, knocked up, manufactured, molded, moulded, synthesised, synthesized, turned out, drew on, invoked, set up, put up, formed, put together, put in place, fit together, assembled, fashioned, fabricated, composed, effected, shaped, established, brought about, found, founded, instituted … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “In front of the erected flagpole, the people elect a committee to run the festival.”
      “No more land shall be occupied by the newly erected building than was occupied by the previously existing domestic building.”
erecting
  1. present participle of erect
  2. Synonyms:
      3. raising, elevating, upending, upraising, mounting, pitching, heightening, hoisting, lifting, pricking, rearing, standing, uprearing, putting up, setting up, standing up, lifting up, setting upright, pricking up, sticking up, straightening up, popping up, assembling, constructing, fashioning, building, effecting, fabricating, forging, making, piecing, composing, confecting, manufacturing, prefabricating, producing, running up, shaping, fixing in position, putting together, fitting together, piecing together, cobbling up, making up, knocking together, throwing together … more
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