right
Forms
- Comparative
- further right
- Superlative
- furthest right
Definitions
1.Clockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.
- The road up ahead contains a right bend.
- Rotate the bolt to the right to tighten it.
2.Complying with justice, correctness, or reason; correct, just, true. See also the interjection senses below.
- 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."
3.Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
- Is this the right software for my computer?
4.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: →
- After the accident, her right leg was slightly shorter than her left.
1.Exactly, precisely.
- Luckily we arrived right at the start of the film.
- The arrow landed right in the middle of the target.
2.Immediately, directly.
- You come right home this instant!
- Can't you see it? It's right beside you!
- Tom was standing right in front of the TV, blocking everyone's view.
3.On the right side.
4.Towards the right side.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #118
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Very common
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English reȝt, right, righte, riht, riȝt, riȝte, ryght, ryȝt, from Old English reht, reoht, rieht, riht, ryht (“right,” also the word for “straight” and “direct”), from Proto-West Germanic *reht, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz (“right, straight; just, morally upright”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós (“right, straightened”), from *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten; to righten”).