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Right can be an adjective, an interjection, a verb, a noun or an adverb.
right used as an adjective:
- Straight, not bent.
- Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
"The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall." - Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.
"I thought you'd made a mistake, but it seems you were right all along." - Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
"Is this the right software for my computer?" - Healthy, sane, competent.
"I'm afraid my father is no longer in his right mind." - Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points to the right: →
"After the accident, her right leg was slighly shorter than her left." - To a great extent or degree.
"Sir, I am right glad to meet you..." - Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
right used as an interjection:
- Yes. Correct. I agree.
- Yes. I agree with whatever you say. I have no opinion.
- Signpost word used to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →
right used as a verb:
- To correct
"Righting all the wrongs of the war will be impossible." - To set upright
"The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile." - To return to normal upright position.
"When the wind died down, the ship righted."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
right used as a noun:
- That which complies with justice, law or reason.
"We're on the side of right in this contest." - A legal or moral entitlement.
"You have no right to talk to me like that!" - The right side or direction.
"The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop." - The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
"The political right holds too much power."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
right used as an adverb:
- Exactly, precisely.
"The arrow landed right in the middle of the target." - Very, extremely, quite.
"I made a right stupid mistake there, didn't I?" - According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
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What type of word is right?
- Adjective usage: The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall.
- Adjective usage: I thought you'd made a mistake, but it seems you were right all along.
- Adjective usage: Is this the right software for my computer?
- Adjective usage: I'm afraid my father is no longer in his right mind.
- Adjective usage: After the accident, her right leg was slighly shorter than her left.
- Adjective usage: Sir, I am right glad to meet you...
- Adjective usage: Members of the Queen's Privy Council are styled The Right Honourable for life.
- Adjective usage: The Right Reverend Monsignor Guido Sarducci
- Verb usage: Righting all the wrongs of the war will be impossible.
- Verb usage: The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.
- Verb usage: When the wind died down, the ship righted.
- Noun usage: We're on the side of right in this contest.
- Noun usage: You have no right to talk to me like that!
- Noun usage: The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.
- Noun usage: The political right holds too much power.
- Adverb usage: The arrow landed right in the middle of the target.
- Adverb usage: Luckily we arrived right at the start of the film.
- Adverb usage: I made a right stupid mistake there, didn't I?
- Adverb usage: I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of right are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of right, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
