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- English Word Right Definition According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right.
- English Word Right Definition In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant.
- English Word Right Definition That which is right or correct.
- English Word Right Definition The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong.
- English Word Right Definition A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.
- English Word Right Definition A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.
- English Word Right Definition That to which one has a just claim.
- English Word Right Definition That which one has a natural claim to exact.
- English Word Right Definition That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.
- English Word Right Definition That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership.
- English Word Right Definition Privilege or immunity granted by authority.
- English Word Right Definition The right side; the side opposite to the left.
- English Word Right Definition In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.
- English Word Right Definition The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
- English Word Right Definition To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.
- English Word Right Definition To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.
- English Word Right Definition To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.
- English Word Right Definition Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.
- English Word Right whale Definition The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.
- English Word Right whale Definition Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale.