RIGHT, RIGHTLY
ADJECTIVES
► BANG ON exactly right → 1999 (Bk.)
► DEAD ON exactly right; correct → 1888 US sl.
► FINE AS FEATHERS in good shape; just right; fine → 1967 Amer. dial.
► GRADELY proper, fit, right; real, genuine, true; good, satisfactory, perfect → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HOTSY-TOTSY wonderful, delightful; just right; later, pretentiously fashionable → 1924 sl., orig. US
► ON THE BEAM correct; right; on the right track or course → 1941 US sl.
► ON THE NOSE correct, right → 1974 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► R right, correct → 1900 sl.
► RATIONABLE reasonable, just, right → 1436 chiefly Sc. obs.
► RIGHT-DOING doing what is right or proper → 1000
► RIGHTFUL 1. disposed to do what is right; just, virtuous → 1000
2. conforming to what is right or just; morally good, fair → 1225
► SKILFUL endowed with reason; rational; also, following reason, doing right → 1300 obs.
► WRONG right, good → 1990 sl.
ADVERBS
► HANDILY rightly, justly → 1913 Amer. dial.
► HANDY justly, rightly → 1939 Amer. dial.
► JUSTICELY with justice; fairly; rightly; justifiably → 1865
► JUSTILY rightly, justifiably → 1450 obs.
INTERJECTIONS & PHRASES
► HORSES FOR COURSES the right thing for the right task → 20C Aust. sl.
► YOLD YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT something is absolutely certain; something is assured; you are absolutely right → 1856
► YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN that is absolutely right; I totally agree with you → 1941
► YOU’RE DAMN TOOTIN’ that is emphatically true; you are absolutely right → 1932
► YOU’RE MIGHTY COME A-RIGHT you’re quite right → 1941 Amer. dial.
► YOU’RE MIGHTY COME A-SHOUTING you’re quite right → 1905 Amer. dial.
► YOU’RE MIGHTY COME A-TOOTING you’re quite right → 1970 Amer. dial.
► YOU SAID IT! you are absolutely right; that is correct → 1919
NOUNS
► RIGHTDOING a doing what is right; proper, correct, or moral action → 1556
► RIGHTEOUSNESS 1. correctness, rightness; aptness → 1000 obs.
2. wisdom, knowledge of what is right → 1000 obs.
► RIGHTHEAD a being right or righteous; rightness → 1500 obs.
► SKILL a sense of what is right or fitting → 1338 obs.
► THE TICKET the exact thing, the right or correct thing → 1836
► THE TICKET FOR SOUP the exact thing, the right or correct thing → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► HUCKLEBERRY the right person → 1893 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► RIGHTDOER a person who does what is right; a person who acts properly, correctly, or morally → 1747
VERBS
► ADDRESS to right what is wrong; to redress wrongs, to reform abuses → 1525 obs.
► BEET to bring into better state, to put right, to correct, to amend, to reform faults, evil ways, etc.; to make good misdeeds → 950 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► BE ON THE BEAM to be on the right track; to be right; to be sane → 1941
► DRY STRAIGHT to come right eventually → 1897 colloq.
► EDZACT to perfect, to render exact; to make precisely right, to adjust precisely → 1917 Amer. dial.
► HAUL UPON THE RIGHT TOW to say the right thing → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► HIT IT ON THE BUTTON to get it exactly right or absolutely correct → 1925 colloq.
► JUSTEN to adjust, to regulate, to make right → 1659 obs.
► RACCOMMODE to restore to good relations with a person; to set right → 1673 obs.
► REDD to correct, to set right; to rebuke, to scold; to sum up the faults of, to criticize → 1819 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RIGHTEN to set or put right → 1500
► RIGHTIFY to do right by; to set right; to rectify; to correct → 1725
► RIGHTLECHE to correct; to set right; to rectify, to amend a thing → 1000 obs.
► THINK DEAR to seem right or proper; to seem good → 1340 obs.
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