Word Finder - right

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Straight, not bent.

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a right line

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Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.

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The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall.

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Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.

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a right triangle, a right prism, a right cone

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Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.

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I thought you'd made a mistake, but it seems you were right all along.

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Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.

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Is this the right software for my computer?

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Healthy, sane, competent.

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I'm afraid my father is no longer in his right mind.

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Real; veritable (used emphatically).

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You've made a right mess of the kitchen!

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All right; not requiring assistance.

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Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.

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Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points to the reader's right: →

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After the accident, her right leg was slightly shorter than her left.

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Designed to be placed or worn outward.

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the right side of a piece of cloth

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Pertaining to the political right; conservative.

Right now she didn't care where they were.

Do you have to go back right away?

Still, he had the right to know.

But right or wrong, she isn't his daughter.

Right or wrong, the decision had been made.

You'll be all right anywhere.

I'll be right back.

You cannot give away your right to live.

Is it all right? said Anatole.

And all will come right and she won't say anything to Mamma.

I am in the middle of it right now - only I don't know what I'm in the middle of.

He had a right to a few quirks.

Let's not think of unpleasant things right now.

I think I'll join Alex right now.

They have no right to be inside the earth at all.

If this chapter angers the Right and Left, the Greens and Browns, the capitalists and socialists, the nutritionists and farmers, I apologize to all in advance.

Some people just put more effort into distinguishing right from wrong than others.

In the right stage of the weather a pond fires its evening gun with great regularity.

You have a right to know everything.

The doctor, who was fetched that same night, bled him and said that the prince had had a seizure paralyzing his right side.

That was what mattered right now.

We guide the pencil with the right hand, and feel carefully with the forefinger of the left hand to see that we shape and space the letters correctly.

And right here I want to say something which is for your ears alone.

In the first place, I tell you we have no right to question the Emperor about that, and secondly, if the Russian nobility had that right, the Emperor could not answer such a question.

Right now she wished she hadn't started this romancing thing.

Sharing their problems was a step in the right direction.

Additionally, right below that is a section called, "What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?"

Regardless of who is "right," the harm comes if you try to do all these things at once.

As far as scientific advancements go, that would be right up there with the proverbial sliced bread.

All right, all right, friend, stay here at the staff and tomorrow we'll have a talk.

He says it's only a few miles away and we'll be right back.

After that he asked me if the strings were all right and changed them at once when I answered in the negative.

Right now she'd like to kiss those smooth lips - and she might if she didn't know where they'd been last.

I enjoy those freedoms much like an interest payment or dividend, and I call it "my right" to free speech.

There are those who would elevate the right to food as being a fundamental human right.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

The Russians, they say, fortified this position in advance on the left of the highroad (from Moscow to Smolensk) and almost at a right angle to it, from Borodino to Utitsa, at the very place where the battle was fought.

She was right, of course, but having mama stand there watching her suffer was just as upsetting for Destiny.

Right now she also wished Alex was here.

I was right from the start, though... about you.

Weigh that against the certainty that nearly a billion people are hungry right now and I don't know why we would decline to acquire this knowledge.

That's not right! cried the prince, and himself pushed it a few inches from the corner and then closer in again.

He made a mumbling sound in confirmation of this, took her hand, and began pressing it to different parts of his breast as if trying to find the right place for it.

Right now she wanted to talk to Dulce.

His father and mother were Quakers, and they did not think it was right to spend money for such things.

Then, suddenly, an awkward half-grown boy who sat right in front of the master's desk turned squarely around and whispered to Tommy Jones, three desks away.

To think of the right to life as somehow different than a right to food is hard for me.

You must know that King Frost, like all other kings, has great treasures of gold and precious stones; but as he is a generous old monarch, he endeavours to make a right use of his riches.

All right, one can't talk--how tiresome!

But a rickety wooden thing like you has no right to be alive.