Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word RIGHT

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Definitions of RIGHT

1. Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
2. Healthy, sane, competent.
3. Real; veritable (used emphatically).
4. Designed to be placed or worn outward.
5. On the right side.
6. Towards the right side.
7. Exactly, precisely.
8. Immediately, directly.
9. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
10. In a correct manner.
11. That which complies with justice, law or reason.
12. A legal, just or moral entitlement.
13. The right side or direction.
14. The right hand or fist.
15. The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright.
16. The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
17. Yes, that is correct; I agree.
18. Complying with justice, correctness, or reason; correct, just, true.
19. 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: →
20. I have listened to what you just said and I acknowledge your assertion or opinion, regardless of whether I agree with it (opinion) or can verify it (assertion).
21. (archaic) Straight, not bent.
22. (geometry) Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
23. (geometry) Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.
24. (Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
25. (dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
26. (geography) Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's right when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the south bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥴ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the right side of the river.
27. (politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
28. (British, US, dialect) Very, extremely, quite.
29. (dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.
30. Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
31. Used to check listener engagement and (especially) agreement at the end of an utterance or each segment thereof.
32. Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
33. (politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
34. (surfing) A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
35. (transitive) To correct.
36. (transitive) To set upright.
37. (intransitive) To return to normal upright position.
38. (transitive) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
39. (politics) The political right wing seen as a whole, as distinguished from an individual right-wing political party.

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Examples of Using RIGHT in a Sentence

• Anah lies from west to east on the right bank along a bend of the river just before it turns south towards Hīt.
• In the case of "stellar" or "annual" aberration, the apparent position of a star to an observer on Earth varies periodically over the course of a year as the Earth's velocity changes as it revolves around the Sun, by a maximum angle of approximately 20 arcseconds in right ascension or declination.
• Abjuration is the solemn repudiation, abandonment, or renunciation by or upon oath, often the renunciation of citizenship or some other right or privilege.
• Each position conventionally has an associated number, for use in scorekeeping by the official scorer: 1 (pitcher), 2 (catcher), 3 (first baseman), 4 (second baseman), 5 (third baseman), 6 (shortstop), 7 (left fielder), 8 (center fielder), and 9 (right fielder).
• At Méteren, near the Belgian border at Bailleul, he was shot through the right lung by a sniper, during the First Battle of Ypres.
• He played almost all of his club football at Manchester United, where he became renowned for his attacking instincts, passing abilities from midfield, ferocious long-range shooting from both left and right foot, fitness, and stamina.
• In computer science, a binary search tree (BST), also called an ordered or sorted binary tree, is a rooted binary tree data structure with the key of each internal node being greater than all the keys in the respective node's left subtree and less than the ones in its right subtree.
• In computer science, a binary tree is a tree data structure in which each node has at most two children, referred to as the left child and the right child.
• It forms part of the Book of the twelve minor prophets or the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and is a book in its own right in the Christian Old Testament.
• A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.
• When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
• Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right act (including omission from acting) is one that will produce a good outcome.
• It is one of two legislative bodies and together with the European Parliament serves to amend and approve, or veto, the proposals of the European Commission, which holds the right of initiative.
• It is a type of parallelepiped, with pairs of parallel opposite faces, and more specifically a rhombohedron, with congruent edges, and a rectangular cuboid, with right angles between pairs of intersecting faces and pairs of intersecting edges.
• She won an MTV Video Music award for the Van Halen music video of the song "Right Now", which she produced.
• Equitable charge, confers a right on the secured party to look to a particular asset in the event of the debtor's default.
• Crank (mechanism), in mechanical engineering, a bent portion of an axle or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it.
• Beyond Copacabana, there are two small beaches: one, inside Fort Copacabana and the other, right after it: Diabo ("Devil") Beach.
• Signed on 23 September 1122 in the German city of Worms by Pope Callixtus II and Emperor Henry V, the agreement set an end to the Investiture Controversy, a conflict between state and church over the right to appoint religious office holders that had begun in the middle of the 11th century.
• In the case of non-therapeutic circumcision of children, proponents of laws in favor of the procedure often point to the rights of the parents or practitioners, namely the right of freedom of religion.

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