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say it: rahyt
right is an adjective, adverb, noun and verb meaning "being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north". It is pronounced /ˈɹaɪt/ — rahyt. It carries 37 recorded senses.
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”
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”
correct in opinion or judgment
“time proved him right”
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”
of or belonging to the political or intellectual right
in or into a satisfactory condition
“things are right again now”
“put things right”
(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”
(informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
“that is one fine dog”
“a right fine day”
colloquialism
precisely, exactly
“stand right here!”
immediately
“she called right after dinner”
toward or on the right; also used figuratively
“he looked right and left”
“the party has moved right”
an interjection expressing agreement
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
“he was wholly convinced”
“entirely satisfied with the meal”
“it was completely different from what we expected”
“was completely at fault”
“a totally new situation”
“the directions were all wrong”
“it was not altogether her fault”
“an altogether new approach”
“a whole new idea”
“she felt right at home”
“he fell right into the trap”
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”
“a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away”
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”
the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right
those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged
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”
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”
anything in accord with principles of justice
“he feels he is in the right”
“the rightfulness of his claim”
(frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing
“mineral rights”
“film rights”
plural
make reparations or amends for
“right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust”
make right or correct
“Correct the mistakes”
“rectify the calculation”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for right come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.