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Meaning of right
1 definition found From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: right adv 1: precisely, exactly; "stand right here!" 2: immediately; "she called right after dinner" 3: exactly; "he fell flop on his face" [syn: {right}, {flop}] 4: toward or on the right; also used figuratively; "he looked right and left"; "the party has moved right" [ant: {left}] 5: in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?" [syn: {properly}, {decently}, {decent}, {in good order}, {right}, {the right way}] [ant: {improperly}] 6: an interjection expressing agreement [syn: {right}, {right on}] 7: completely; "she felt right at home"; "he fell right into the trap" 8: (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree; "the baby is mighty cute"; "he's mighty tired"; "it is powerful humid"; "that boy is powerful big now"; "they have a right nice place"; "they rejoiced mightily" [syn: {mighty}, {mightily}, {powerful}, {right}] 9: in accordance with moral or social standards; "that serves him right"; "do right by him" [syn: {justly}, {right}] 10: in an accurate manner; "the flower had been correctly depicted by his son"; "he guessed right" [syn: {correctly}, {right}, {aright}] [ant: {incorrectly}, {wrong}, {wrongly}] adj 1: being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north; "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" [ant: {left}] 2: free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth; "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision" [syn: {correct}, {right}] [ant: {incorrect}, {wrong}] 3: socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior" [syn: {correct}, {right}] 4: in conformance with justice or law or morality; "do the right thing and confess" [ant: {wrong}] 5: correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right" [syn: {right}, {correct}] [ant: {wrong}] 6: appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs; "everything in its proper place"; "the right man for the job"; "she is not suitable for the position" [syn: {proper}, {right}] 7: of or belonging to the political or intellectual right [ant: {center}, {left}] 8: in or into a satisfactory condition; "things are right again now"; "put things right" 9: intended for the right hand; "a right-hand glove" [syn: {right(a)}, {right-hand(a)}] 10: in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters" [syn: {correct}, {right}] 11: having the axis perpendicular to the base; "a right angle" 12: (of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward; "the right side of the cloth showed the pattern"; "be sure your shirt is right side out" 13: most suitable or right for a particular purpose; "a good time to plant tomatoes"; "the right time to act"; "the time is ripe for great sociological changes" [syn: {good}, {right}, {ripe}] 14: precisely accurate; "a veracious account" [syn: {veracious}, {right}] n 1: an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; "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; it is something that nobody can take away" 2: location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east; "he stood on the right" [ant: {left}] 3: the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right [syn: {right field}, {rightfield}, {right}] 4: those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged [syn: {right}, {right wing}] 5: the hand that is on the right side of the body; "he writes with his right hand but pitches with his left"; "hit him with quick rights to the body" [syn: {right}, {right hand}] 6: a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east; "take a right at the corner" 7: anything in accord with principles of justice; "he feels he is in the right"; "the rightfulness of his claim" [syn: {right}, {rightfulness}] [ant: {wrong}, {wrongfulness}] 8: (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing; "mineral rights"; "film rights" v 1: make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" [syn: {right}, {compensate}, {redress}, {correct}] [ant: {wrong}] 2: put in or restore to an upright position; "They righted the sailboat that had capsized" 3: regain an upright or proper position; "The capsized boat righted again" 4: make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation" [syn: {correct}, {rectify}, {right}] [ant: {falsify}]
Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.
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