What is right?

More definitions of "right":

• (adj): Correct in opinion or judgment.
  Example: "Time proved him right"
  Synonyms: correct

• (adj): Most suitable or right for a particular purpose.
  Example: "The right time to act"
  Synonyms: good, ripe

• (adv): An interjection expressing agreement.
  Synonyms: right on

• (adj): Having the axis perpendicular to the base.
  Example: "A right angle"

• (adj): Free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth.
  Example: "The right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision"
  Synonyms: correct

• (adj): Being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north.
  Example: "My right hand"; "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"

• (adv): Completely.
  Example: "She felt right at home"; "he fell right into the trap"

• (adv): Toward or on the right; also used figuratively.
  Example: "He looked right and left"; "the party has moved right"

• (noun): Location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east.
  Example: "He stood on the right"

• (adj): In conformance with justice or law or morality.
  Example: "Do the right thing and confess"

• (verb): Make reparations or amends for.
  Example: "Right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
  Synonyms: compensate, redress, correct

• (noun): The hand that is on the right side of the body.
  Example: "He writes with his right hand but pitches with his left"
  Synonyms: right hand

• (noun): (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing.
  Example: "Mineral rights"; "film rights"

• (adv): Immediately.
  Example: "She called right after dinner"

• (adv): Precisely, exactly.
  Example: "Stand right here!"

• (adj): In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure.
  Example: "What's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters"
  Synonyms: correct

• (adj): Of or belonging to the political or intellectual right.

• (adv): (Southern regional intensive) very.
  Example: "They have a right nice place"
  Synonyms: mighty, powerful

• (adj): Of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face outward.
  Example: "The right side of the cloth showed the pattern"; "be sure your shirt is right side out"

• (noun): Anything in accord with principles of justice.
  Example: "He feels he is in the right"
  Synonyms: rightfulness

• (noun): Those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged.
  Synonyms: right wing

• (verb): Regain an upright or proper position.
  Example: "The capsized boat righted again"

• (adv): In a correct manner.
  Example: "He guessed right"
  Synonyms: correctly, aright

• (noun): A turn to the right.
  Example: "Take a right at the corner"

• (noun): The piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right.
  Synonyms: right field

• (adj): Intended for the right hand.
  Example: "A right-hand glove"
  Synonyms: right-hand

• (verb): Put in or restore to an upright position.
  Example: "They righted the sailboat that had capsized"

• (adv): Exactly.
  Synonyms: flop

• (adv): In accordance with moral or social standards.
  Example: "That serves him right"; "do right by him"
  Synonyms: justly

• (adj): In or into a satisfactory condition.
  Example: "Things are right again now"; "put things right"

• (verb): Make right or correct.
  Synonyms: correct, rectify

• (noun): An abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature.
  Example: "They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt; "a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away"

• (adj): Appropriate for a condition or occasion.
  Example: "The right man for the job"
  Synonyms: proper, suitable

• (adj): Socially right or correct.
  Example: "It isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"
  Synonyms: correct

Famous quotes containing the word right:

“What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!—And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)