Right

Near-synonym: starboard

After the accident, her right leg was slightly shorter than her left.

The road up ahead contains a right bend.

Rotate the bolt to the right to tighten it.

That's not the right thing to do.

So I was right all along? C'mon. I want to hear you say it.

If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is certainly right, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."

there are some dispositions blame-worthy in men, which are yet, in a right sense, holily ascribed unto God; as unchangeableness, and irrepentance.

What do you send me into London for, giving me only the right to call for my dinner at the Black Lion, which you’re to pay for next time you go, as if I was not to be trusted with a few shillings? Why do you use me like this? It’s not right of you. You can’t expect me to be quiet under it.

Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead. Gene Hunt: So I'm right. Sam Tyler: We both are. Gene Hunt: Right. Sam Tyler: Right. Gene Hunt: Just as long as I'm more right than you.

But when that patient requests access to medical care that violates some religious tenet, is it right that he or she either be denied outright or forced to seek an alternative facility?

Of course, I was not always right. I questioned the value of Crossrail (a scheme revived by Prescott after being scrapped by the Conservatives), suggesting wrongly that it may be "doomed to hit the buffers" […]. A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders. We are all allowed to change our minds.

Is this the right software for my computer?

I'm afraid my father is no longer in his right mind.

“If I didn’t know the dear old fellow so well by now,” Tennington remarked to Miss Strong, “I should be quite certain that he was—er—not quite right, don’t you know.”

You've made a right mess of the kitchen!

He's got a wicked sense of fun, he can be a right laugh, he's ever so broadminded – ooh, and he's got a lovely broad chest too.

[…]in this battle and whole business the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians: no rule, no foresight, no forecast, experience, or estimation

The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall.

a right triangle   a right prism   a right cone

The Louvre Museum is on the right bank of the Seine.

the right side of a piece of cloth   Begin this stitch on the right side.

Kirsty: I suppose you're hungry. Would you like something to eat? Ken: No. I'm right, thanks.

When the sales assistant sees the customer, she asks Are you right, sir? This means Are you all right? She wants to know if he needs any help.

'You lost?' Colin spun round. Looking at him was a nurse, her eyebrows raised. / 'No, I'm right, thanks,' said Colin.'

The lady has been disappointed on the right side.

a right line

In the course of the day we saw several large whales of the right species, and innumerable flights of the albatross passed over the vessel.

The arrow landed right in the middle of the target.

Luckily we arrived right at the start of the film.

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.

Can't you see it? It's right beside you!

Tom was standing right in front of the TV, blocking everyone's view.

You come right home this instant!

I made a right stupid mistake there, didn't I?

I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much.

a right godly treatise

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

Well, that would be right neighborly of you, miss.

But it would be right neighborly and Christian of you to put your own wants aside for a spell.

The fog was right hard to see through so I was on Tom Pritchard before I saw him.

Kids nowadays were a right thrillproof bunch. The Armoury Section had, unexpectedly, proved to be a real moodclunker.

Do it right or don't do it at all.

Nothing is going right for me lately.

Sir, I am right glad to meet you …

Members of the Queen's Privy Council are styled The Right Honourable for life.

The Right Reverend Monsignor Guido Sarducci.

Sith mercie in a Prince reſembleth right, The gladſome ſunne-ſhine in a winters day, […]

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.

Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead. Gene Hunt: So I'm right. Sam Tyler: We both are. Gene Hunt: Right. Sam Tyler: Right. Gene Hunt: Just as long as I'm more right than you.

Tell her you’re here. Right. Thanks, Pete.

— United's the best team in the country. — Right. And they'll go all the way for sure. — Damn right they will.

Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead. Gene Hunt: So I'm right. Sam Tyler: We both are. Gene Hunt: Right. Sam Tyler: Right. Gene Hunt: Just as long as I'm more right than you.

— United's the best team in the country, so they'll come up with something. — Right. And do you think they'll go all the way?

— After that interview, I don't think we should hire her. — Right. Who wants lunch?

You're going, right?

I went downstairs, right, and I was going to call her, but I found this note, right, so what am I supposed to do now?

Withnail: Right […] I'm gonna do the washing up.

We're on the side of right in this contest.

Throughout our history, whenever evil forces prevailed, the altruistic and upright people have always shown their great wisdom by adhering to the right against the wrong, renouncing wrongful gain for justice, displaying their great benevolence in national salvation and summoning their great courage to surmount the crisis and turn back the perverse tide.

You have no right to go through my personal diary.

There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties.

"I do not know that you have any right to inquire into reasons for my conduct. I am at least sure that I never gave you any such right," replied Wiley. "I claim no right but the common right of humanity," said the old gentleman. "If you do not acknowledge that, my interference in this matter can only be viewed as impertinent."

Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.

The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.

"Before he could strike again, however, I got in my right, and he was sprawling on his back on the floor."

The political right holds too much power.

Sunak seems so scared of his party's swivel-eyed right wing that he has been panicked into focusing all new legislation on perceived 'red meat' issues which he hopes the Tory right will support.

Simple cross-stitch, with a space between each stitch, may be worked in two rows, in which case the completed stitch on the wrong sides alternates with that on the right.

For the large size, two pieces of silk, eighteen inches wide and twenty-seven inches long, are sewed together at three sides, rights together, leaving one end open.

In case there is a right and wrong side to the tops, put two rights together.

Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible.

The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.

When the wind died down, the ship righted.

to right the oppressed

So just is God, to right the innocent.

All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Many earnest consumers on the Right feel so legitimately embattled by the nonstop streaming feed of hate speech and psyoppery directed at them that they think they have no choice but to reconfigure their artistic sensibilities accordingly.