Right

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English

Adjective

Right (comparative Righter, superlative Rightest)

  1. (archaic) Straight, not bent.
  2. Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
    The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall.
  3. Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.
    I thought you'd made a mistake, but it seems you were right all along.
  4. Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
    Is this the right software for my computer?
  5. Healthy, sane, competent.
    I'm afraid my father is no longer in his right mind.
  6. Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points to the right: →
    After the accident, her right leg was slighly shorter than her left.
  7. (archaic, sometimes used in titles) To a great extent or degree.
    Sir, I am right glad to meet you...
    Members of the Queen's Privy Council are styled The Right Honourable for life.
    The Right Reverend Monsignor Guido Sarducci
  8. (politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
  9. (Australian) All right; not requiring assistance
    • 1986 David Williamson, "What If You Died Tomorrow," Collected plays, Volume 1, Currency Press, p310
      KIRSTY: I suppose you're hungry. Would you like something to eat? / KEN: No. I'm right, thanks.
    • 2001 Catherine Menagé, Access to English, National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, NSW: Sydney, p25
      When the sales assistant sees the customer, she asks Are you right, sir? This means Are you all right? She wants to know if he needs any help.
    • 2001 Morris Gleitzman, Two weeks with the Queen, Pan Macmillan Australia, p75
      'You lost?' / Colin spun round. Looking at him was a nurse, her eyebrows raised. / 'No, I'm right, thanks,' said Colin.

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Adverb

Right (not comparable)

  1. On the right side.
  2. Towards the right side.

Interjection

Right

  1. Yes. Correct. I agree.
  2. Yes. I agree with whatever you say. I have no opinion.
  3. Signpost word used to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.

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Noun

Right (plural Rights)
  1. That which complies with justice, law or reason.
    We're on the side of right in this contest.
  2. A legal or moral entitlement.
    You have no right to go through my book.
  3. The right side or direction.
    The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.
  4. (politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
    The political right holds too much power.

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Verb

Right (third-person singular simple present Rights, present participle Righting, simple past and past participle Righted)

  1. To correct
    Righting all the wrongs of the war will be impossible.
  2. To set upright
    The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.
  3. (intransitive) To return to normal upright position.
    When the wind died down, the ship righted.

Adverb

Right (not comparable)

  1. Exactly, precisely.
    The arrow landed right in the middle of the target.
    Luckily we arrived right at the start of the film.
  2. (UK, US, Southern) Very, extremely, quite.
    I made a right stupid mistake there, didn't I?
    I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much.
    • Ann Hite, Ghost on Black Mountain,
      The fog was right hard to see through so I was on Tom Pritchard before I saw him.
  3. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really
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Adjectives for Right

outward; authoritative; individual; inalienable; hereditary; unrestricted; colonial; prescriptive; litigious; indefeasible; peculiar; legal; belligerent; relative; legitimate; marital; sacred; inviolable; unquestionable; undisputed; natural; respective; concrete; undoubted; exclusive; purchased; immemorial; substantial; inestimable; municipal; injured; prime; invaded; inborn; constitutional; derivative; inherent; obedient; vanquished; common; riparian (pi); conceded; poetical; autonomic; conjugal; functional; vested; unquestioned; beautiful; proprietary; antique; terrible; illimitable; civil; perfected; manorial; executive; formal; sable-vested; shameful; feudal; covenanted; immutable; invulnerable; unalterable; abstract; ecclesiastical; unclaimed; statut-able; possessory; proprietary; lucrative; impugned; questionable; absolute; vital; senescent; uhcontested; divine; irrevocable; provincial; vindicated.

Verbs for Right

abolish—; accord—; acknowledge—; arrogate—; assert—; assume—; cherish—; clamor for—; concede—; confer—; confiscate—; curtail—; defend—; deprive of—; derive—; dispose of—; dispute—; disregard —; earn—; embody—; encroach on—; establish—; exercise—; forfeit—; grant—; impair—; infringe upon—; insure—; invade ——; invest with—; prate of—s; preserve—; protest—; relinquish—; remand—; respect —; restore—; retain—; revoke—; safe¬guard—; surrender—; suspend—; suppress terminate—; transgress—; undermine uphold—; urge—; vindicate—; violate vouchsafe—; waive—; win—; wrest—; — resides with; —triumphs.

Thesaurus

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high-mindedness, high-principled, highly respectable, holding, homologate, homologize, honest, honestly, honesty, honorable, honorableness, horizontal, human rights, immaculate, immediately, imperialist, in a beeline, in a line, in all conscience, in all respects, in every respect, in line with, in reason, inalienable right, indeed, indeedy, indirect authority, indubitable, inequity, inherent authority, injustice, instantly, integrity, interest, inviolate, ipsissimis verbis, irreproachable, irretrievably, irrevocably, it is that, ja, jus divinum, just, just right, just so, justice, justifiability, justifiable, justifiableness, justification, justified, justly, justness, kerplunk, key to, kosher, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, lawful, lawful authority, lawfulness, legal, legal authority, legal rights, legality, legitimacy, letter-perfect, level, liberty, license, licit, likely, limitation, lineal, linear, literal, literalism, literality, literally, literalness, literatim, lucid, mais oui, make all square, make good, make plumb, make right, make uniform, make up for, manly, material basis, mathematical precision, measure, measure for measure, meet, meet and right, meetness, mend, mentally sound, merit, merited, meshing, meticulous, meticulousness, mightily, mighty, monarchist, moral, morality, most assuredly, natural right, natural rights, naturally, naturellement, nemesis, nice, nicely, niceness, nicety, nobility, noble, normal, normative, of course, of sound mind, of the faith, off, okay, old liner, on the button, on the right, only, only too, open, opportune, opportunely, option, order, orthodox, orthodoxical, oui, out-and-out, overhaul, part, pat, patch, pay reparations, percentage, perfect, perfection, perfectly, perquisite, plain, plop, plumb, plump, plunk, poetic justice, point-blank, politic, positively, power, powerful, powerfully, precise, precisely, preciseness, precision, preferable, preferred, prerogative, prescription, presumptive right, pretense, 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righteous, rightful, rightful authority, rightfully, rightfulness, rightist, rightly, rightness, righto, rights, rightward, rightwardly, rightwards, rigidity, rigidly, rigor, rigorous, rigorously, rigorousness, royal prerogative, royalist, royally, rude justice, ruler-straight, sane, sane-minded, satisfactorily, satisfactory, scales of justice, scriptural, scrupulous, seasonable, seemly, sensible, sensibly, set, set in order, set right, set straight, set to rights, set up, settle, settlement, severity, sharp, sheer, similarize, simon-pure, smack, smack-dab, smooth, so, social Darwinist, sort out, sortable, sound, sound-minded, spang, speedily, splendidly, spotless, spread, square, squarely, stainless, stake, standard, standpat, standpatter, starboard, starboard tack, stark, sterling, stock option, straddle, straight, straight across, straight ahead, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, straight-up-and-down, straightaway, straighten out, straighten up, straightforward, straightforwards, straightly, strap, strategic, streamlined, strict, strict settlement, strictly, strictness, strip, substance, subtlety, sufficient, suitable, suitably, suited, suiting, summary justice, sure, sure thing, sure-enough, surely, swiftly, sync, synchronize, tailor, tailored, terribly, terrifically, textual, textualism, that is so, the letter, the say, the say-so, thorough, thoroughgoing, timely, title, to be desired, to be fair, to be sure, to the letter, to the point, to the purpose, to the right, together, tolerable, tory, traditional, traditionalistic, trim to, true, true up, true-blue, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, truly, trust, truth, truthful, tune, ultraconservative, unalienable rights, unalloyed, unbending, unbent, unblemished, unbowed, unbroken, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, uncurved, undefiled, undeflected, undeviating, undeviatingly, undistorted, undoubted, unerringly, unexceptional, unimpeachable, uninterrupted, unmitigated, unrelievedly, unsnarl, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unswerving, unswervingly, untarnished, unturned, unveeringly, upper, upright, uprighteous, uprightness, upstanding, urbane, use, useful, utter, valid, vamp, veracious, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, veridical, veritable, vertical, very, very well, vested authority, vested interest, vested right, vicarious authority, vindicate, virtue, virtuous, virtuousness, warrant, warrantability, warrantable, warranted, warrantedness, well, well and good, well-timed, what is owing, what is right, whip into shape, whole, wholesome, why yes, wise, without delay, without hesitation, word by word, word for word, worthwhile, worthy, yea, yeah, yeomanly, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree, you are right, you said it, you speak truly

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English right (“right”), from Old English riht, reht (“right”), from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz (“right, direct”), from Proto-Indo-European *reg-to- (“having moved in a straight line”) from *(o)reg'(a)- (“to straighten, direct”). An Indo-European past participle, it became a Germanic adjective which has been used also as a noun since the common Germanic period. Cognate with Dutch recht, German recht/Recht, Swedish rätt and rät, Danish ret, Norwegian rett, and Icelandic rétt. The Indo-European root is also the source of Greek ὀρεκτός, Latin rectus and the Sanskrit ṛtá (ऋत)

Etymology 2

Old English rihtan (“to straighten, judge, set upright, set right”), from riht, from the same ultimate source as Etymology 1, above.

Translations

Adjective

straight
correct
of direction
perpendicular
conservative
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Adverb

on the right side
towards the right side

Noun

something one is legally entitled to
right, not left, side
The right-wing politicians and parties

Verb

correct
to set upright

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