Usually means: Morally good, justified, or acceptable.
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We found 65 dictionaries that define the word right:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. right: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. right, the Right, the right: Merriam-Webster
  3. right, right, the Right, the right: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. right: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. right, the right: Collins English Dictionary
  6. right: Vocabulary.com
  7. RIght, Right, Right, right, right, right, the-right: Wordnik
  8. right, the right: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. right: Wiktionary
  10. right: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. right: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. right: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. right, the right: Dictionary.com
  14. right (adj.1), right (adj.2), right (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. right: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Right (David Bowie song), Right (comics), Right (disambiguation), Right (ethics), Right (politics), Right, The Right (Germany), The Right (Italy), The Right (comics): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Right: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. right: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. right: Rhymezone
  20. right: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. right: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. right: FreeDictionary.org
  23. right: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Right (vs. Left): The Word Detective
  25. The Right, right, right (or left): TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. right: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RIGHT: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. Right: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. right: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. right: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. right: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Derivatives (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. Right: bizterms.net
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. The Right, right: Legal dictionary
  13. Right, The Right: Financial dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. The Right, right: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. right: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. RIGHT: Acronym Finder
  4. The Right, right: Idioms
  5. right: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Right: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. right: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. right, right, right: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. right: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. right: Colloquial Speech of Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada
  5. Right: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  6. R.I.G.H.T, The Right, right, right: Urban Dictionary
  7. Right: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Right: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  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: →
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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