✅ More correct 🦸 A fixer ➡️ More to the right

righter

1 7.5

A person who tries to fix wrongs and make things fair

noun
/ˈraɪtər/

: rectificador

And so boldly, the Republican Party sails off in search of ever righter and crazier ideological waters.

Examples

Are you not Lisbeth Salander... the righter of wrongs... the girl who hurts men who hurt women?

The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
Tell your queer nigger bosses they ain't gonna find civil righters here.

Mississippi Burning (1988)
You Far Righters claim that yours don't stink, but your gas gives you away.

Blog text (5)
Towanda, righter of wrongs!

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
To be honest, I attempted to edit "righting" into "rightering" (as in "the wronger I'm proved, the righter I am!"), but the edit feature was not liking me.

Blog text (3)
Many people see her as a righter of wrongs because she volunteers to help the underserved.
As a righter of injustices, he dedicated his life to fighting for those who could not fight for themselves.
In his community, she is known as a righter who helped expose corruption and restore integrity.

Synonyms

corrector

vsrighter

1 4.3

A person or tool that finds and fixes mistakes in writing

refers specifically to a person who corrects wrongs and injustices

rectifier

vsrighter

8.2

A person who corrects wrongs or mistakes

has the same meaning but adds emphasis on correcting injustices as well

Antonyms

wrongdoer

8 4.3

A person who breaks the law or hurts other people

How Corrective

reformer

100 3.5

restorer

6 5.0

righter

1 7.5

fixer

24 6.1

helper

79 1.0

Surface Forms

righter singular

righters plural

Morphology

righter = right (transparent) = right + er

Clear agentive formation from the verb 'right' meaning 'one who rights (corrects)'.

Etymology

Righter comes from the verb right, which can mean 'to make correct' or 'to fix'. So a righter is a person who 'sets things right' and corrects mistakes.