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▸ adjective: Complying with justice, correctness, or reason; correct, just, true. See also the interjection senses below.
▸ adjective: Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
▸ adjective: Healthy, sane, competent.
▸ adjective: Real; veritable (used emphatically).
▸ adjective: (geometry) Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
▸ adjective: (geometry) Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.
▸ adjective: (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.
▸ adjective: Designed to be placed or worn outward.
▸ adjective: (politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
▸ adjective: (Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
▸ adjective: (dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
▸ adjective: (archaic) Straight, not bent.
▸ adjective: Of or relating to the right whale.
▸ adverb: On the right side.
▸ adverb: Towards the right side.
▸ adverb: Exactly, precisely.
▸ adverb: Immediately, directly.
▸ adverb: (British, US, dialect) Very, extremely, quite.
▸ adverb: According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
▸ adverb: In a correct manner.
▸ adverb: (dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.
▸ noun: That which complies with justice, law or reason.
▸ noun: A legal, just or moral entitlement.
▸ noun: The right side or direction.
▸ noun: The right hand or fist.
▸ noun: The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright.
▸ noun: (politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
▸ noun: The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
▸ noun: (surfing) A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
▸ verb: (transitive) To correct.
▸ verb: (transitive) To set upright.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To return to normal upright position.
▸ verb: (transitive) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
▸ noun: (politics) The political right wing seen as a whole, as distinguished from an individual right-wing political party.
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straight,
aright,
right-minded,
accurate,
justly,
right on,
correctly,
word-perfect,
precise,
rightfulness,
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