Meaning

Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form..

Definitions by Sense

1. Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
2. (archaic) To or on the right-hand side.
3. (transitive) To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.

Example Sentences

it is not easie we should so often settle our minds in so regular, so reformed, and so devout a seat, where indeed it ought to be, to pray aright and effectually: otherwise our praiers are not only vaine and unprofitable, but vicious.

Hear him not; call on the names of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart. I will hover near and direct the steel aright.

The great service which he rendered to science was that he put the right questions ; it was not that he answered them aright.

"Well, gentlemen, have I read you the riddle aright, or is there any point which you would query?"

Once more away! and now The long descent is seen, A long, long, narrow path. Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow, Aleft the giddy precipice.

But, from working with those who have felt exiled and damned, excoriated and benumbed, and yet have made it back to useful and creative life again, I know there are more sure, albeit intense, ways to aright oneself.

Word Forms

• arights
• arighting
• arighted

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Use aright when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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