aright
/əˈrʌɪt
/adverb dialect
Correctly; properly: I wondered if I’d heard aright...
- The report was a window into our boy, in an environment where we are not readily to hand to lean on or put things aright or correct him.
- To hear it aright you must stand in the darkness of such a by-street as this, and for the moment be at one with those who dwell around.
- If I understand it aright, objective calculation and measurement take their cue from - and ultimately serve - circumspective involvement in the world.
Origin
Old English on riht, ariht (see a-2 'in', right).
Rhymes
- tholeiitic
- thole pin
- tholos
- Thomas Aquinas, St
- Thomas Atkins
- Thomas, Clarence
- Thomas, Danny
- Thomas, Dylan
- Thomas, Edward
- Thomas More, St
- Thomas, Norman
- Thomas, St
- Thomas à Kempis
- Thomism
- Thomist
- Thomistic
- Thomistical
- Thompson, Daley
- Thompson, Emma
- Thompson, Flora
- Thompson, Francis
- Thompson, Sir John
- Thompson, Smith
- Thomson, James
- Thomson, Roy Herbert