Meaning of right in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

adjective

• Straight, not bent.

  Example: a right line

• Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.

  Example: The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall.

• Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.

  Example: a right triangle, a right prism, a right cone

• Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.

  Example: I thought you'd made a mistake, but it seems you were right all along.

• Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.

  Example: Is this the right software for my computer?

• Healthy, sane, competent.

  Example: I'm afraid my father is no longer in his right mind.

• Real; veritable (used emphatically).

  Example: You've made a right mess of the kitchen!

• All right; not requiring assistance.

• Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.

• Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points to the reader's right: →

  Example: After the accident, her right leg was slightly shorter than her left.

• Designed to be placed or worn outward.

  Example: the right side of a piece of cloth

• Pertaining to the political right; conservative.

adverb

• On the right side.

• Towards the right side.

• Exactly, precisely.

  Example: Luckily we arrived right at the start of the film.

• Immediately, directly.

  Example: Can't you see it? It's right beside you!

• Very, extremely, quite.

  Example: I made a right stupid mistake there, didn't I?

• According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.

• In a correct manner.

  Example: Do it right or don't do it at all.

• (still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.

  Example: Members of the Queen's Privy Council are styled The Right Honourable for life.

interjection

• Yes, that is correct; I agree.

• I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion.

• Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.

• Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance.

  Example: You're going, right?

• Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.

noun

• That which complies with justice, law or reason.

  Example: We're on the side of right in this contest.

• A legal, just or moral entitlement.

  Example: You have no right to go through my personal diary.

• The right side or direction.

  Example: The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.

• The right hand or fist.

• The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.

  Example: The political right holds too much power.

• The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.

• A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).

verb

• To correct.

  Example: Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible.

• To set upright.

  Example: The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.

• To return to normal upright position.

  Example: When the wind died down, the ship righted.

• To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.

  Example: to right the oppressed