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Sounds | ray't |
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Rhymes | acolyte, airtight, alight, and 175 more rhymes in ayt at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Free from error. Especially conforming to fact or truth. |
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Examples | "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision" |
Synonyms | correct |
Attribute of | correctness, rightness |
Similar | accurate, exact, precise; letter-perfect, word-perfect; straight |
See also | accurate; proper; true |
Contrary | incorrect, wrong |
Adverbs | right |
Meaning | Being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north. |
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Examples | "my right hand"; "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" |
Attribute of | position, place |
Similar | far; rightmost; right-hand; starboard |
See also | right-handed |
Contrary | left |
Meaning | Socially right or correct. |
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Examples | "it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye" |
Synonyms | correct |
Similar to | proper |
Meaning | In conformance with justice or law or morality. |
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Examples | "do the right thing and confess" |
Attribute of | rightness |
Similar | ethical, honorable, honourable, moral |
See also | ethical; good; just; proper |
Contrary | wrong |
Adverbs | rightly |
Meaning | Correct in opinion or judgment. |
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Examples | "time proved him right" |
Synonyms | correct |
Similar | right-minded |
Contrary | wrong |
Meaning | Appropriate for a condition or occasion. |
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Examples | "the right man for the job" |
Synonyms | proper, suitable |
Similar to | appropriate |
Meaning | Of or belonging to the political or intellectual right. |
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Similar | conservative; reactionary, reactionist, far-right; rightish; rightist, right-wing |
See also | conservative |
Contrary | left; center |
Meaning | In or into a satisfactory condition. |
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Examples | "things are right again now"; "put things right" |
Similar to | satisfactory |
Meaning | Intended for the right hand. |
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Examples | "a right-hand glove" |
Synonyms | right-hand |
Similar to | right-handed |
Meaning | In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure. |
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Examples | "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters" |
Synonyms | correct |
Similar to | proper |
Meaning | Having the axis perpendicular to the base. |
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Examples | "a right angle" |
Category | geometry |
Similar to | perpendicular |
Meaning | Of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face outward. |
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Examples | "the right side of the cloth showed the pattern"; "be sure your shirt is right side out" |
Similar to | outside |
Meaning | Most suitable or right for a particular purpose. |
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Examples | "the right time to act" |
Synonyms | good, ripe |
Similar to | opportune |
Meaning | An abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature. |
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Examples | "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt; "a right is not something that somebody gives you |
Narrower | access; advowson; cabotage; claim, title; due; entree, access, accession, admittance; floor; grant; human right; legal right; preemption, pre-emption; prerogative, privilege, perquisite, exclusive right; privilege; representation; right of search; right of way; states' rights; voting right; water right, riparian right |
Broader | abstraction, abstract |
Verbs | right |
Meaning | (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing. |
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Examples | "mineral rights"; "film rights" |
Broader | interest, stake |
Usage | plural, plural form |
Verbs | right |
Meaning | Location near or direction toward the right side. I.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east. |
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Examples | "he stood on the right" |
Narrower | stage right, right stage |
Broader | position, place |
Contrary | left |
Meaning | A turn to the right. |
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Examples | "take a right at the corner" |
Broader | turn, turning |
Meaning | Those who support political or social or economic conservatism. Those who believe that things are better left unchanged. |
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Synonyms | right wing |
Narrower | religious right; hard right |
Broader | faction, sect |
Meaning | Anything in accord with principles of justice. |
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Examples | "he feels he is in the right"; "the rightfulness of his claim" |
Synonyms | rightfulness |
Broader | justice, justness |
Contrary | wrong, wrongfulness |
Meaning | The hand that is on the right side of the body. |
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Examples | "he writes with his right hand but pitches with his left"; "hit him with quick rights to the body" |
Synonyms | right hand |
Broader | hand, manus, mitt, paw |
Meaning | The piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right. |
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Synonyms | right field |
Part of | outfield |
Broader | tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel |
Meaning | Precisely, exactly. |
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Examples | "stand right here!" |
Meaning | Immediately. |
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Examples | "she called right after dinner" |
Meaning | Exactly. |
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Synonyms | flop |
Usage | colloquialism |
Meaning | Toward or on the right. Also used figuratively. |
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Examples | "he looked right and left"; "the party has moved right" |
Contrary | left |
Meaning | In the right manner. |
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Synonyms | properly, decently, decent, in good order, the right way |
Contrary | improperly |
Meaning | An interjection expressing agreement. |
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Synonyms | right on |
Meaning | Completely. |
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Examples | "she felt right at home"; "he fell right into the trap" |
Meaning | (Southern regional intensive) very. |
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Examples | "they have a right nice place" |
Synonyms | mighty, powerful |
Usage | intensifier, intensive |
Meaning | In accordance with moral or social standards. |
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Examples | "that serves him right"; "do right by him" |
Synonyms | justly |
Meaning | In a correct manner. |
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Examples | "he guessed right" |
Synonyms | correctly, aright |
Contrary | incorrectly, wrongly, wrong |
Adjectives | right |
Meaning | Make reparations or amends for. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" |
Synonyms | compensate, redress, correct |
Narrower | over-correct, overcompensate; expiate, aby, abye, atone |
Broader | change, alter, modify |
Contrary | wrong |
Nouns | right; right |
Meaning | Put in or restore to an upright position. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "They righted the sailboat that had capsized" |
Broader | change, alter, modify |
Similar to | right |
Meaning | Regain an upright or proper position. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Examples | "The capsized boat righted again" |
Broader | change posture |
Similar to | right |
Meaning | Make right or correct. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | correct, rectify |
Narrower | rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend; debug |
Broader | change by reversal, turn, reverse |
Contrary | falsify |