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Right   /raɪt/   Listen
Right

adjective
1.
Being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north.  "Right center field" , "A right-hand turn" , "The right bank of a river is the bank on your right side when you are facing downstream"
2.
Free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth.  Synonym: correct.  "The correct version" , "The right answer" , "Took the right road" , "The right decision"
3.
Socially right or correct.  Synonym: correct.  "Correct behavior"
4.
In conformance with justice or law or morality.
5.
Correct in opinion or judgment.  Synonym: correct.
6.
Appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs.  Synonym: proper.  "The right man for the job" , "She is not suitable for the position"
7.
Of or belonging to the political or intellectual right.
8.
In or into a satisfactory condition.  "Put things right"
9.
Intended for the right hand.  Synonym: right-hand.
10.
In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure.  Synonym: correct.  "The right way to open oysters"
11.
Having the axis perpendicular to the base.
12.
(of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward.  "Be sure your shirt is right side out"
13.
Most suitable or right for a particular purpose.  Synonyms: good, ripe.  "The right time to act" , "The time is ripe for great sociological changes"
14.
Precisely accurate.  Synonym: veracious.
adverb
1.
Precisely, exactly.
2.
Immediately.
3.
Exactly.  Synonym: flop.
4.
Toward or on the right; also used figuratively.  "The party has moved right"
5.
In the right manner.  Synonyms: decent, decently, in good order, properly, the right way.  "Can't you carry me decent?"
6.
An interjection expressing agreement.  Synonym: right on.
7.
Completely.  "He fell right into the trap"
8.
(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree.  Synonyms: mightily, mighty, powerful.  "He's mighty tired" , "It is powerful humid" , "That boy is powerful big now" , "They have a right nice place" , "They rejoiced mightily"
9.
In accordance with moral or social standards.  Synonym: justly.  "Do right by him"
10.
In an accurate manner.  Synonyms: aright, correctly.  "He guessed right"
noun
1.
An abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature.  "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people" , "A right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away"
2.
Location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east.
3.
The piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right.  Synonyms: right field, rightfield.
4.
Those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged.  Synonym: right wing.
5.
The hand that is on the right side of the body.  Synonym: right hand.  "Hit him with quick rights to the body"
6.
A turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east.
7.
Anything in accord with principles of justice.  Synonym: rightfulness.  "The rightfulness of his claim"
8.
(frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing.  "Film rights"
verb
(past & past part. righted; pres. part. righting)
1.
Make reparations or amends for.  Synonyms: compensate, correct, redress.
2.
Put in or restore to an upright position.
3.
Regain an upright or proper position.
4.
Make right or correct.  Synonyms: correct, rectify.  "Rectify the calculation"



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"Right" Quotes from Famous Books



... was thrown out by the cognomen's correspondence with that of the laird, which suggested that the boy had been merely attempting the name of the great man of the district. With this in her mind, and doubtfully feeling her way, she essayed the tentative of setting him right in the Christian name, and said: "Thomas—Thomas Galbraith." Gibbie shook his head as before, and again resumed his seat. Presently he brought her the slate, with all the rest rubbed out, and these words standing alone—sir giby galbreath. Janet read ...
— Sir Gibbie • George MacDonald
... in their slippery elevation. Greece is therefore clearly in a most lamentable condition, and the British public who adopted her, and fed her for a while on every luxury, now cares very little about her misfortunes. Sir Francis Burdett, Sir John Hobhouse, and the Right Honourable Edward Ellice, who once acted as her trustees, and Joseph Hume—the immaculate and invulnerable Joseph himself, who once stood forward as her champion—have forgotten ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 • Various
... Right adjoining the chapel is an immense, rickety building, with windows and shutters, and a half-decayed board flooring laid upon trunks of palm-trees. They called it a school-house; but as such we never saw it occupied. It was often used as a court-room, however; and ...
— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville
... good plump wench; if all fall right, I'll make your sister-hood one less by night. Now happy fortune speed this merry drift, I like a wench ...
— The Merry Devil • William Shakespeare
... the sun, like a cloud. Not that there is anything so wonderful about the story itself, outside of its naked tragedy. But I think it was more the way that huge placid-eyed girl told it, with her broken English and her occasional pauses to grope after the right word. Or perhaps it was because it came as such a grim reality after the trifling grotesqueries of the night before. At any rate, as I heard it this morning it seemed as terrible as anything in Tolstoi's Heart of Darkness, and more than once sent ...
— The Prairie Wife • Arthur Stringer


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