Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Conforming with or conformable to justice, law, or morality.
- adjective In accordance with fact, reason, or truth; correct.
- adjective Fitting, proper, or appropriate.
- adjective Most favorable, desirable, or convenient.
- adjective In or into a satisfactory state or condition.
- adjective In good mental or physical health or order.
- adjective Intended to be worn or positioned facing outward or toward an observer.
- adjective Of, belonging to, located on, or being the side of the body to the south when the subject is facing east.
- adjective Of, relating to, directed toward, or located on the right side.
- adjective Located on the right side of a person facing downstream.
- adjective Of or belonging to the political or intellectual right.
- adjective Formed by or in reference to a line or plane that is perpendicular to another line or plane.
- adjective Having the axis perpendicular to the base.
- adjective Having a right angle.
- adjective Straight; uncurved; direct.
- adjective Archaic Not spurious; genuine.
- noun That which is just, moral, or proper.
- noun The direction or position on the right side.
- noun The right side.
- noun The right hand.
- noun A turn in the direction of the right hand or side.
- noun The people and groups who advocate the adoption of conservative or reactionary measures, especially in government and politics.
- noun The opinion of those advocating such measures.
- noun Sports A blow delivered by a boxer's right hand.
- noun Baseball Right field.
- noun A just or legal claim or title.
- noun Something that is due to a person or governmental body by law, tradition, or nature.
- noun Something, especially humane treatment, claimed to be due to animals by moral principle.
- noun An existing stockholder's legally protected claim to purchase additional shares in a corporation ahead of those who are not currently stockholders, especially at a cost lower than market value.
- noun The negotiable paper on which such an entitlement is indicated.
- adverb Toward or on the right.
- adverb In a straight line; directly.
- adverb In the proper or desired manner; well.
- adverb Exactly; just.
- adverb Immediately.
- adverb Completely; quite.
- adverb According to law, morality, or justice.
- adverb Accurately; correctly.
- adverb Chiefly Southern US Considerably; very.
- adverb Used as an intensive.
- adverb Used in titles.
- intransitive verb To put in or restore to an upright or proper position.
- intransitive verb To put in order or set right; correct.
- intransitive verb To make reparation or amends for; redress.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That\'s four wrongs in once sentence, and four wrongs don\'t make a right -- unless you\'re talking about \ "right\" - wing bias.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Washington Post: Always Fighting the Wrong War RJ 2010
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My father used to say that if you waited for people to do the right thing for the * right* reason you'd wait forever.
Obama, Hillary Both Vote Against The No-Timelines Iraq Funding Bill 2009
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As such, its first amendment right to say whatever it likes ought to be protected, but not its \ "right\" to call itself \ "news\".
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A valid model is one which gives you the right answers … for the *right* reasons.
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All of our concerned righteous representitives will rise up and do the right thing.. support the soldiers and soldier families and sick uninsured children..right after they make sure the those honorable campaign conributors and patriotic lobbyists are taken care of first!
Bush Vetoed Injured Soldiers and their Families Too. Will Congress Veto Bush and Support the Soldiers They Are Allowing to be Needlessly Injured? Ellen Beth Gill 2007
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Well, this is it, is good to know i was right all along, but we all knew that..right?
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Umm, yeah the cute boy from England right, right that one
ugotsoul Diary Entry ugotsoul 2002
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The man is to receive the ring from the priest with the three principal fingers of the right hand; and then, holding the _right hand_ of the bride with his own left hand, he shall say, "With this ring," &c.
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A salad served with meat, at an informal dinner, is placed on the right side, _from the right_, the exception to the rule of serving from the left.
How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration Lillian B. Lansdown
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The pony does not understand that; it is the slight pressure of the right rein on the _right_ side of the neck that turns him to the
Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson
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Swipe right This phrase is associated with an action on many dating apps. To swipe right means to indicate interest or attraction in a person.
Bulky Cameras, Meet The Lens-less FlatCam Laura Roman 2018
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The Alternative Right is a term coined in 2008 by Richard Bertrand Spencer, who heads the white nationalist think tank known as the National Policy Institute, to describe a loose set of far-right ideals centered on “white identity” and the preservation of “Western civilization.” In 2010, Spencer — who had stints as an editor of The American Conservative and Taki’s Magazine — launched the Alternative Right blog, where he worked to refine the movement’s ideological tenets. Racist alt-right celebrity Richard Spencer was slated to speak at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Spencer describes the alt-right as a big-tent ideology that blends the ideas of neo-reactionaries (NRx-ers), who advocate a return to an antiquated, pseudo-libertarian government that supports “traditional western civilization;” “archeofuturists,” those who advocate for a return to “traditional values” without jettisoning the advances of society and technology; human biodiversity adherents (HBDers) and “race realists,” people who generally adhere to “scientific racism”; and other extreme-right ideologies. Alt-right adherents stridently reject egalitarianism and universalism.
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"Then began he to weep right tenderly, and said: Long have I abiden your coming, but for God’s love hold me in your arms, that my soul may depart out of my body in so good a man’s arms as ye be."
- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'.
September 13, 2009