right
- noun
- /raɪt/
- And thank God those jurors did the right thing and justice prevailed.
- right and wrong
- moral right
- a sense of right
I fight more for what's right and what matters with courage.
- I fight more for what's right and what matters with courage.
- You're all mature, and you know what is right and what is wrong.
- You know, there's, there's the right, the wrong, let's say, and the edge.
Examples
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The other islanders lose the right to hunt and gather on Eve's land.
Academic text (1990) -
- You have the right to remain silent.
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There is a right and wrong way to be a man.
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You have no right to be here.
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Do I have the right to ask what brought these sudden changes on?
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People have to know what's right and wrong.
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You have the right to remain silent.
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And besides, everyone has a right to freely choose his or her destiny.
Fiction book (1993) -
The Nimiipuu successfully reserved the right to fish for salmon at all "usual and accustomed places."
Academic text (2012) -
Everyone has the right to express their opinions freely.
Synonyms
Fair treatment of people and the courts that decide it
A state of being morally good and fair in actions
A state of being fair and morally right
Being morally and legally correct and fair
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
A punishment that someone deserves because of their own wrong actions
- Jargon
A place to the right of the stage where actors wait out of view of the audience
Compounds
- Formal
A right that a country's most important law gives and protects, for example free speech
People who support conservative political, social, and economic ideas and little change
- Formal
Freedom from other people entering your personal life without permission
- Formal
A right for someone accused of a crime to have a lawyer, including a free one if they cannot pay
- Literature
A political group in the United States that wants laws to follow conservative religious beliefs
A player who plays on the right side of the outfield and catches balls hit there
- Specialized
Part of the brain that controls the left side of the body and helps with creativity and understanding space
An understanding of what is right and wrong that guides a person's actions
- Formal
A right under the law to be left alone and not have personal matters made public
A very large whale with baleen that lives in cold coastal waters and is endangered
- Specialized
An object's eastward angle along the sky's equator used to find its position, shown in hours
- Specialized
The half of the brain on the right that controls the left side and helps with visual and creative thinking
- Specialized
The top right part of the heart that receives blood without oxygen from the body
- Specialized
The lower part of the heart on the right that pumps blood to the lungs
- Specialized
A legal right that lets an inventor stop others from making, using, or selling an invention for a set time
A baseball player who throws the ball to the batter with their right hand
- Formal
A legal and moral claim to be free from unfair arrest and official control
A political idea that kings get their power from God and are not controlled by their people
- Specialized
A blood vessel that carries blood to the right side of the heart
- Formal
A married person's legal claim to live with and be close to their partner
A person with very strict traditional political views who strongly opposes social change
Permission for a prisoner to have private visits with their spouse for sex
- Literature
A country or organization that strongly supports democracy and freedom worldwide
- Specialized
A valve with three flaps between the right upper and lower chambers of the heart that stops blood flowing backward
- Formal
A choice a surviving spouse makes to take either what the will gives or the legal share of the estate
- Formal
The only right to be the first to make a work public and sell it
How Just
Surface Forms
Etymology
Right as the state of being just comes from old English riht meaning 'justice' or 'law', so being 'in the right' means being morally or legally correct.