put right

1. 1.

   settle or put right

   “we need to iron out our disagreements”

   Synonymsiron outstraighten out

   Broaderbetter

Questions about put right

What does put right mean?

put right means "settle or put right".

What is another word for put right?

Close synonyms include iron out, straighten out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is put right a common word?

put right is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.