Definition/Meaning of right

• English - Adjective: right (comparative further right or farther right or more right or righter, superlative furthest right or farthest right or most right or rightmost or rightest) Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which the heart is not located in most humans. This arrow points to the reader's right: → After the accident, her right leg was slightly…
• English - Adverb: right (not comparable) (not comparable) On the right side. (not comparable) Towards the right side. (not comparable) Exactly , precisely . Luckily we arrived right at the start of the film. The arrow landed right in the middle of the target. (not comparable) Immediately , directly . You come right home this instant! Can't you see it? It's right beside you! (UK, US, dialectal, not comparable)…
• English - Interjection: right Yes, that is correct ; I agree . — United's the best team in the country.— Right . And they'll go all the way for sure.— Damn right they will. 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain) Tell her you’re here.Right. Thanks, Pete. I have listened to what you just said and I acknowledge your assertion or opinion, regardless of whether I agree with it (opinion) or can verify it (assertion). —…
• English - Noun: right (plural rights) That which complies with justice , law or reason . We're on the side of right in this contest. 1973 July 22 [1973 July 17], Chiang Kai-shek, “President Chiang Kai-shek's message to the mass rally supporting Captive Nations Week”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 28, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1: Throughout our history, whenever evil forces prevailed, the altruistic…
• English - Verb: right (third-person singular simple present rights, present participle righting, simple past and past participle righted) (transitive) To correct . Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible. (transitive) To set upright . The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile. (intransitive) To return to normal upright position. When the wind died down, the ship righted .…