Right

/ˈɹaɪt/ · adjective

Meaning

Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which the heart is not located in most humans. This arrow points to the reader's right: →.

Definitions by Sense

1. Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which the heart is not located in most humans. This arrow points to the reader's right: →
2. Clockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.
3. Complying with justice, correctness, or reason; correct, just, true. See also the interjection senses below.
4. Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
5. Healthy, sane, competent.
6. Real; veritable (used emphatically).
7. (geometry) Of an angle, measuring 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
8. (geometry) Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: starboard

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

The road up ahead contains a right bend.

Rotate the bolt to the right to tighten it.

That's not the right thing to do.

So I was right all along? C'mon. I want to hear you say it.

If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is certainly right, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."

there are some dispositions blame-worthy in men, which are yet, in a right sense, holily ascribed unto God; as unchangeableness, and irrepentance.

Synonyms for right

Antonyms for right

Related Words

Word Forms

• further right
• farther right
• more right
• righter
• furthest right
• farthest right
• most right
• rightmost
• rightest
• ryght
• reight
• rite
• rights
• righting
• righted

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