right
- adjective
- /raɪt/
- A target triangle was marked to the server's right-hand side in each of the two service boxes.
- right hand
- right-handed
- the right side
Examples
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So you're in this lower right quadrant of the plot.
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Certainly, she holds a brush-like applicator in her right hand as she applies pigment to the hair.
Academic text (2011) -
And if you both drive on the right, you do fine.
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To the left, to the right, up or down?
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Look to each section of the audience: back left, middle, back right, front left, and front right.
Academic text (2011) -
Notice the vertical bar on the right side of the Document Size section.
Academic text (2008) -
When this person smiles, only the right side of her face smiles.
Academic text (2017) -
In front and on the right side of the house, I saw a wide veranda.
Academic text (2008) -
The parameter estimates from this approach are reported on the right-hand side of Table 3.
Academic text (2008) -
Please turn right at the next intersection to reach the restaurant.
Synonyms
On or toward the right side
Made to be used with the right hand or for people who prefer that hand
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 Right
Surface Forms
Etymology
Right meaning suitable for the right hand or side comes from the same old English riht for the side that is 'correct' or usual to use, so a 'right' glove fits the right hand.