rightadjective
uk/raɪt/us/raɪt/right adjective (CORRECT)
A1 correct:
A1 If you are right about something or someone, you are correct in your judgment or statement about it, him, or her:
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- "I think you're absolutely right," concurred Chris.
- "Was it wrong of me to go to the police?" "Oh no, I'm sure you did the right thing."
- I have a faint suspicion that you may be right!
- I'm fairly sure that this is the right address.
- Take a chance and follow your nose - you may be right!
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Accurate and exact
- accuracy
- accurate
- aright
- authoritative
- bang
- be bang on idiom
- exact
- exactly
- in so many words idiom
- infallible
- infallibly
- letter-perfect
- literal
- sharp
- strictly speaking idiom
- technically
- to the day idiom
- to the letter idiom
- truly
- unerring
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right adjective (SUITABLE)
B1 suitable or correct, or as it should be:
used to refer to a person who is considered to be socially important or a place that such people go to:
in the correct position:
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- She fished in her tool box for the right spanner.
- She knew that Dave wasn't the right man for her but she couldn't deny the animal attraction between them.
- I was fumbling for the right word.
- Apropos what you said yesterday, I think you made the right decision.
- This carpet would be just right for the dining room.
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Suitable and acceptable
- able
- acceptable
- accepted
- accordingly
- age-appropriate
- correct
- doctor
- felicitous
- fit in
- fit in with sth
- fitting
- germane
- horse
- keeping
- rightly
- satisfaction
- seasonable
- seemly
- sit
- sit right/well (with sb) idiom
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right adjective (MORALLY ACCEPTABLE)
B2 [ after verb ] considered fair or morally acceptable by most people:
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- "Was it wrong of me to go to the police?" "Oh no, I'm sure you did the right thing."
- I'm sure you did the right thing in telling her about the problem.
- It's not right to treat another human being like that.
- It's only right that the two children be treated the same.
- I don't think it's right to spend so much money on yourself.
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Virtue and moral good
- altruism
- angel
- angelic
- be as pure as the driven snow idiom
- be on the side of the angels idiom
- goodness
- lily-white
- moral
- nobility
- noble
- principled
- pure
- selfless
- spinach
- straight
- the road to hell is paved with good intentions idiom
- the straight and narrow idiom
- unselfish
- upright
- virtue
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right adjective (HEALTHY)
healthy, or working correctly:
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Animal physiology: fit & healthy
- agile
- amazon
- an apple a day keeps the doctor away idiom
- apple
- athleticism
- be (as) fit as a fiddle idiom
- be (as) right as rain idiom
- beach-ready
- bouncing
- clean
- fighting fit
- foot
- healthy
- iron man
- limber
- lithe
- muscle-bound
- strength
- sturdy
- virility
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right adjective (COMPLETE)
[ before noun ] UK informal used for emphasizing when something is bad:
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Linguistics: very & extreme
- abject
- awful
- badly
- beyond
- classic
- classical
- devastating
- drop dead! idiom
- eminently
- esp
- especially
- heartily
- impossibly
- rather
- sheer
- specially
- supremely
- thoroughly
- whole
- wide
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right adjective (DIRECTION)
A2 on or towards the side of your body that is to the east when you are facing north:
More examples
- He wrenched his right shoulder during a game of hockey.
- In the US, you drive on the right side of the road, but in Britain the converse applies.
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General location and orientation
- -oriented
- about
- along
- anterior
- around
- back onto sth
- far
- fix
- frontal
- hind
- left-hand
- nearside
- offside
- on-site
- orientated
- overleaf
- position
- round
- side-on
- spot
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rightadverb
uk/raɪt/us/raɪt/right adverb (DIRECTION)
A2 on or towards the side of your body that is to the east when you are facing north:
right adverb (EXACTLY)
B1 exactly or all the way:
used for emphasis:
B1 immediately:
at the present time:
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Accurate and exact
- accuracy
- accurate
- aright
- authoritative
- bang
- be bang on idiom
- exact
- exactly
- in so many words idiom
- infallible
- infallibly
- letter-perfect
- literal
- sharp
- strictly speaking idiom
- technically
- to the day idiom
- to the letter idiom
- truly
- unerring
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right adverb (IN TITLES)
used as part of the title of particular people, such as bishops and some members of Parliament:
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Religious titles
- brother
- eminence
- father
- Fr
- grace
- holiness
- Monsignor
- mother
- Msgr
- pandit
- pope
- rev
- Reverend
- saint
- st
- swami
- the Very Reverend
- Vicar of Christ
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right adverb (CORRECTLY)
B2 correctly:
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Accurate and exact
- accuracy
- accurate
- aright
- authoritative
- bang
- be bang on idiom
- exact
- exactly
- in so many words idiom
- infallible
- infallibly
- letter-perfect
- literal
- sharp
- strictly speaking idiom
- technically
- to the day idiom
- to the letter idiom
- truly
- unerring
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right adverb (SUCCESSFULLY)
If something goes right, it is successful or happens in a way that you hoped it would:
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Successful (things or people)
- a heavy hitter idiom
- achiever
- alive
- alpha male
- ascendant
- bang
- chart
- fly
- have sth in your pocket idiom
- have the world at your feet idiom
- healthy
- high-flyer
- high-flying
- lion
- ride
- thrive
- to have arrived idiom
- top-rated
- tried
- triumphant
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Idiom(s)
rightnoun
uk/raɪt/us/raɪt/right noun (DIRECTION)
A2 [ S ] the right side:
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- Italic writing slants to the right.
- Tens go in the left-hand column and units in the right.
- We have to turn down/into/up the next road on the right.
- Ours is the third road on the right.
- Go up the stairs and her office is on the right.
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General location and orientation
- -oriented
- about
- along
- anterior
- around
- back onto sth
- far
- fix
- frontal
- hind
- left-hand
- nearside
- offside
- on-site
- orientated
- overleaf
- position
- round
- side-on
- spot
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right noun (POLITICS)
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- He's certainly on the right.
- The right campaigned against the president.
- Politicians on the right are naturally in favour of the proposal.
- The far right are gaining in popularity.
- She's on the right of the party.
C2 political parties or people that have traditional opinions, and that believe in low taxes, property, and industry being privately owned, and less help for the poor:
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Political movements & groups
- alt-right
- ANC
- antidisestablishmentarianism
- awkward
- Blairite
- hawkish
- Islamist
- labor
- left
- left-winger
- one-party
- PAC
- Plaid Cymru
- political action committee
- republican
- the SDLP
- the Third Way
- the right wing
- the SDLP
- Whig
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right noun (MORALLY ACCEPTABLE)
B2 [ U ] what is considered to be morally good or acceptable:
If you are in the right, what you are doing is morally or legally correct.
B2 [ C or U ] the fact that a person or animal can expect to be treated in a fair, morally acceptable, or legal way, or to have the things that are necessary for life:
If you are within your rights to do something, you are legally allowed to do it:
legal controls over who is allowed to use a book or film:
new shares in a particular company that have become available for people to buy who already own shares:
to improve or correct something:
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- Freedom of speech is a cherished right in this country.
- These organizations have fought very hard for the rights and welfare of immigrants.
- She's also a veteran campaigner for human rights.
- Freedom of speech should be a constitutional right.
- Just because you've been promoted that doesn't give you a divine right to tell us all what to do.
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Virtue and moral good
- altruism
- angel
- angelic
- be as pure as the driven snow idiom
- be on the side of the angels idiom
- goodness
- lily-white
- moral
- nobility
- noble
- principled
- pure
- selfless
- spinach
- straight
- the road to hell is paved with good intentions idiom
- the straight and narrow idiom
- unselfish
- upright
- virtue
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Idiom(s)
rightexclamation
uk/raɪt/us/raɪt/informalright exclamation (AGREEMENT)
A2 used to express agreement with someone or to show that you have understood what someone has said:
A2 said when you want to make a group of people notice you, especially so that you can start an activity:
said between parts of a story that you are telling, in order to make certain that people are paying attention and understanding:
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- "You start work on that pile then." "Right."
- "We'll pick you up at eight o'clock." "Right."
- Right, we've got a lot of work to get through so we'd better start now.
- Right, if you're ready, I'll begin.
- Right, if you don't mind I'd like to start this session.
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Understanding and comprehending
- apprehend
- apprehension
- at your fingertips idiom
- attune
- bear in on/upon
- common
- fathom
- fingertip
- hit
- make sth/sb of sth/sb
- make sth/sb out
- mind
- penetrate
- picture
- read between the lines idiom
- reading
- realization
- take sth in
- twig
- understand
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Idiom(s)
rightverb [ T ]
uk/raɪt/us/raɪt/formal If you right a situation or a mistake, you make it better or correct it:
If a boat rights itself, it turns itself back to its correct position in the water:
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Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- correction
- fiddle (around) with sth
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- lie
- mess
- patch
- put/set sb right idiom
- reconstruction
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- revised
- smooth
- sort sth/sb out
- troubleshooting
- under repair idiom
- work on sth
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