I. adjective
1.
Synonyms: upright 2, conscientious, honest, honorable, just, scrupulous, true
2.
Synonyms: decorous 1, becoming, befitting, comely, comme il faut, correct, decent, done, nice, proper
3.
Synonyms: just 3, appropriate, condign, deserved, due, merited, requisite, rhadamanthine, rightful, suitable
4.
Synonyms: true 3, faithful, just, strict, undistorted, veracious, veridical
Contrasted words: specious, unsound; misguided, mistaken
Antonyms: unright, wrong
5.
Synonyms: correct 2, accurate, exact, nice, precise, proper, rigorous
6.
Synonyms: fit 1, applicable, appropriate, apt, befitting, felicitous, fitting, happy, proper, suitable
7.
Synonyms: authentic 2, bona fide, genuine, indubitable, real, simon-pure, sure-enough, true, undoubted, veritable
8.
Synonyms: sane 2, all there, compos mentis, lucid, normal
9.
Synonyms: healthy 1, ||bunkum, fit, hale, sane, well, well-conditioned, well-liking, whole, wholesome
10.
Synonyms: conservative 1, die-hard, fogyish, old-line, orthodox, reactionary, tory, traditionalistic
11.
Synonyms: decent 4, acceptable, adequate, all right, common, good, satisfactory, sufficient, tolerable, unexceptional
II. noun
1.
qualities (as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval
the right is not all on one side
Synonyms: good, straight
Related Word: correctitude, correctness, properness, propriety, rightness
Contrasted words: debt, sin, wickedness; improperness, impropriety, incorrectness, unrightness
Antonyms: unright, wrong
2.
something to which one has a just claim
the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Synonyms: appanage, birthright, perquisite, prerogative, privilege
Related Word: claim, interest, title; freedom, liberty, license
3.
usually rights plural
Synonyms: due 1, comeuppance, desert(s), deserving, lumps, merit
4.
Synonyms: diehard 1, bitter-ender, conservative, fundamentalist, old liner, rightist, right-winger, standpat, standpatter, tory
|| 5.
Synonyms: obligation 2, charge, commitment, committal, devoir, duty, must, need, ought
|| 6.
Synonyms: excuse 1, alibi, plea, pretext
III. adverb
1.
Synonyms: just 1, accurately, bang, exactly, precisely, sharp, ||smack-dab, spang, square, squarely
2.
Synonyms: well 4, acceptably, adequately, amply, appropriately, becomingly, fittingly, properly, satisfactorily, suitably
Antonyms: wrong, wrongly
3.
Synonyms: directly 1, dead, direct, due, straight, straightly, undeviatingly
4.
Synonyms: well 3, altogether, clear, completely, entirely, fully, perfectly, quite, ||slap, utterly
5.
Synonyms: away 3, at once, directly, first off, forthwith, immediately, instanter, now, right away, straightaway
6.
Synonyms: very 1, ||awful, ||big, exceedingly, extremely, highly, notably, parlous, remarkably, ||right smart
IV. verb
1.
Synonyms: correct 1, amend, emend, mend, rectify
|| 2.
Synonyms: mend 2, fix, overhaul, patch, recondition, reconstruct, repair, revamp, ||rightle, vamp