| Right |
a. |
Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line. |
| Right |
a. |
Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone. |
| Right |
a. |
Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true. |
| Right |
a. |
Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford. |
| Right |
a. |
Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious. |
| Right |
a. |
According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith. |
| Right |
a. |
Most favorable or convenient; fortunate. |
| Right |
a. |
Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side;
opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals. |
| Right |
a. |
Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done. |
| Right |
a. |
Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth. |
| Right |
adv. |
In a right manner. |
| Right |
adv. |
In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide. |
| Right |
adv. |
Exactly; just. |
| Right |
adv. |
According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right. |
| Right |
adv. |
According to any rule of art; correctly. |
| Right |
adv. |
According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right. |
| Right |
adv. |
In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant. |
| Right |
a. |
That which is right or correct. |
| Right |
a. |
The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt,
the opposite of moral wrong. |
| Right |
a. |
A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact. |
| Right |
a. |
A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity. |
| Right |
a. |
That to which one has a just claim. |
| Right |
a. |
That which one has a natural claim to exact. |
| Right |
a. |
That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal. |
| Right |
a. |
That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership. |
| Right |
a. |
Privilege or immunity granted by authority. |
| Right |
a. |
The right side; the side opposite to the left. |
| Right |
a. |
In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5. |
| Right |
a. |
The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc. |
| Right |
a. |
To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct. |
| Right |
a. |
To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate. |
| Right |
v. i. |
To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright. |
| Right |
v. i. |
Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening. |
| Right whale |
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The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained. |
| Right whale |
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Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale. |
| Right-about |
n. |
A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about. |
| Right-angled |
a. |
Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle. |
| Right-hand |
a. |
Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road. |
| Right-hand |
a. |
Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable. |
| Right-handed |
a. |
Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left. |
| Right-handed |
a. |
Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front;
said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction. |
| Right-handed |
a. |
Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral;
said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. |
| Right-handedness |
n. |
The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity. |
| Right-hearted |
a. |
Having a right heart or disposition. |
| Right-lined |
a. |
Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle. |
| Right-minded |
a. |
Having a right or honest mind. |
| Right-running |
a. |
Straight; direct. |
| Righted |
imp. & p. p. |
of Right |
| Righten |
v. t. |
To do justice to. |
| Righteous |
a. |
Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. |
| Righteoused |
a. |
Made righteous. |
| Righteously |
adv. |
In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously. |
| Righteousness |
n. |
The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude. |
| Righteousness |
n. |
A righteous act, or righteous quality. |
| Righteousness |
n. |
The act or conduct of one who is righteous. |
| Righteousness |
n. |
The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground of justification. |
| Righter |
n. |
One who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong. |
| Rightful |
a. |
Righteous; upright; just; good;
said of persons. |
| Rightful |
a. |
Consonant to justice; just; as, a rightful cause. |
| Rightful |
a. |
Having the right or just claim according to established laws; being or holding by right; as, the rightful heir to a throne or an estate; a rightful king. |
| Rightful |
a. |
Belonging, held, or possessed by right, or by just claim; as, a rightful inheritance; rightful authority. |
| Rightfully |
adv. |
According to right or justice. |
| Rightfulness |
n. |
The quality or state of being rightful; accordance with right and justice. |
| Rightfulness |
n. |
Moral rectitude; righteousness. |
| Righting |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Right |
| Rightless |
a. |
Destitute of right. |
| Rightly |
adv. |
Straightly; directly; in front. |
| Rightly |
adv. |
According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed. |
| Rightly |
adv. |
Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately. |
| Rightly |
adv. |
According to truth or fact; correctly; not erroneously; exactly. |
| Rightness |
n. |
Straightness; as, the rightness of a line. |
| Rightness |
n. |
The quality or state of being right; right relation. |
| Rightward |
adv. |
Toward the right. |
| Rightwise |
a. |
Righteous. |
| Rightwise |
v. t. |
To make righteous. |
| Rightwisely |
adv. |
Righteously. |
| Rightwiseness |
n. |
Righteousness. |
