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Right   /raɪt/   Listen
Right

adjective
1.
Being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north.  "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"  Antonym: left.
2.
Free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth.  Synonym: correct.  "The correct version" , "The right answer" , "Took the right road" , "The right decision"  Antonyms: incorrect, wrong.
3.
Socially right or correct.  Synonym: correct.  "Correct behavior"
4.
In conformance with justice or law or morality.  Antonym: wrong.
5.
Correct in opinion or judgment.  Synonym: correct.  Antonym: wrong.
6.
Appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs.  Synonym: proper.  "The right man for the job" , "She is not suitable for the position"
7.
Of or belonging to the political or intellectual right.  Antonyms: center, left.
8.
In or into a satisfactory condition.  "Put things right"
9.
Intended for the right hand.  Synonym: right-hand.
10.
In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure.  Synonym: correct.  "The right way to open oysters"
11.
Having the axis perpendicular to the base.
12.
(of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward.  "Be sure your shirt is right side out"
13.
Most suitable or right for a particular purpose.  Synonyms: good, ripe.  "The right time to act" , "The time is ripe for great sociological changes"
14.
Precisely accurate.  Synonym: veracious.
adverb
1.
Precisely, exactly.
2.
Immediately.
3.
Exactly.  Synonym: flop.
4.
Toward or on the right; also used figuratively.  "The party has moved right"  Antonym: left.
5.
In the right manner.  Synonyms: decent, decently, in good order, properly, the right way.  "Can't you carry me decent?"  Antonym: improperly.
6.
An interjection expressing agreement.  Synonym: right on.
7.
Completely.  "He fell right into the trap"
8.
(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree.  Synonyms: mightily, mighty, powerful.  "He's mighty tired" , "It is powerful humid" , "That boy is powerful big now" , "They have a right nice place" , "They rejoiced mightily"
9.
In accordance with moral or social standards.  Synonym: justly.  "Do right by him"
10.
In an accurate manner.  Synonyms: aright, correctly.  "He guessed right"  Antonyms: incorrectly, wrongly.
noun
1.
An abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature.  "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"
2.
Location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east.  Antonym: left.
3.
The piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right.  Synonyms: right field, rightfield.
4.
Those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged.  Synonym: right wing.
5.
The hand that is on the right side of the body.  Synonym: right hand.  "Hit him with quick rights to the body"
6.
A turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east.
7.
Anything in accord with principles of justice.  Synonym: rightfulness.  "The rightfulness of his claim"  Antonyms: wrongfulness, wrong.
8.
(frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing.  "Film rights"
verb
(past & past part. righted; pres. part. righting)
1.
Make reparations or amends for.  Synonyms: compensate, correct, redress.  Antonym: wrong.
2.
Put in or restore to an upright position.
3.
Regain an upright or proper position.
4.
Make right or correct.  Synonyms: correct, rectify.  "Rectify the calculation"  Antonym: falsify.



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... eighteenth-century philosophy (which had described man as a creature of the senses, born with a blank mind, and learning only by experience), it emphasized the divinity of man's nature, his inborn ideas of right and wrong, his instinct of God, his passion for immortality,—in a word, his higher knowledge which transcends the knowledge gained from the senses, and which is summarized in the ...
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