right
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: rīt
ipa: /ˈɹaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɹaɪt]
ipa: [ˈɹɒɪʔ]
ipa: /ˈɹiːt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹiːt/
enpr: rīt
ipa: /ˈɹaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɹaɪt]
ipa: [ˈɹaɪθ̠]
ipa: [ˈɻɐʏt]
ipa: [-ʔ]
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɹo̞ɪ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɹəɪ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɹo̞ɪʔ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɹəɪʔ/
ipa: /ˈɹʌɪt/
note: especially Nova Scotia
ipa: /ˈɹeɪt/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ɹəi̯t]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ɹei̯t]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [-ʔ]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [-ɾ̥]
ipa: /ˈɹaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɹɑe̯t]
ipa: /ˈɹaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɹäːtʰ]
homophone: rite
homophone: wright
homophone: Wright
homophone: write
homophone: rate (dialectal; certain senses only)
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: ryght
form: reight
form: rite
Etymology: From Middle English right, righte, from Old English rihte, rehte (“right; rightly; due; directly; straight”), from Proto-Germanic *rehta, from *rehtaz (“right; straight”).
Senses: glosses: On the right side.
glosses: Towards the right side.
examples: text: The arrow landed right in the middle of the target.
text: Luckily we arrived right at the start of the film.
text: Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Exactly, precisely.
examples: text: Can't you see it? It's right beside you!
text: Tom was standing right in front of the TV, blocking everyone's view.
text: You come right home this instant!
glosses: Immediately, directly.
examples: text: I made a right stupid mistake there, didn't I?
text: I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much.
text: a right godly treatise
ref: 1549, John Calvin, Of the life or conuersation of a Christen man, a right godly treatise:
text: That's long enough for any small town." Lyon leaned forward. "Do you like Lawrenceville, Mr. Hill?" The driver cocked his head. "Aeah. Why not? Born here. It's a right nice town
ref: 1966, Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, page 214:
text: Well, that would be right neighborly of you, miss.
ref: 2004, Jon Sharpe, Nebraska nightmare:
text: But it would be right neighborly and Christian of you to put your own wants aside for a spell.
ref: 2008, Luke Cypher, Red Mesa, page 101:
text: The fog was right hard to see through so I was on Tom Pritchard before I saw him.
ref: 2011, Ann Hite, Ghost on Black Mountain:
text: Kids nowadays were a right thrillproof bunch. The Armoury Section had, unexpectedly, proved to be a real moodclunker.
ref: 2015, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, page 255:
glosses: Very, extremely, quite.
glosses: According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
examples: text: Do it right or don't do it at all.
text: Nothing is going right for me lately.
glosses: In a correct manner.
examples: text: Sir, I am right glad to meet you …
text: Members of the Queen's Privy Council are styled The Right Honourable for life.
text: The Right Reverend Monsignor Guido Sarducci.
text: Sith mercie in a Prince reſembleth right,
The gladſome ſunne-ſhine in a winters day, […]
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act IV:
text: He b'iled right over, and the tongue-lashing he give that boss Right Liver beat anything I ever listened to. There was heap of Scriptur' language in it, and more brimstone than you'd find in a match factory.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
qualifier: still used in some titles
glosses: To a great extent or degree.
Synonyms: sense: on the right side
word: rightward
sense: on the right side
word: rightwise
sense: towards the right side
word: rightward
sense: towards the right side
word: rightways
sense: exactly, precisely
word: exactly
word: just
word: precisely
word: smack-dab
word: exactly
sense: immediately, directly
word: right smack
sense: immediately, directly
word: slap-bang
sense: very, extremely
word: ever so
word: very
sense: according to fact or truth
word: in point of fact
word: in truth
word: actually
sense: correct manner
word: correctly
sense: correct manner
word: properly
Derived terms: arse has gone right out of 'er
be right back
draw right
eyes right
get right down to cases
go horribly right
have one's head screwed on right
house right
it doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right
left and right
play one's cards right
play one's hand right
please turn right
right and left
right away
right back at you
right-down
right enough
right here
right now
right out
right out straight
right quick
right smart
right up someone's alley
straighten up and fly right
swipe right
wake up and die right
Related terms: downright
forthright
outright
upright