Usually means: Morally good, justified, or acceptable.
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We found 63 dictionaries that define the word right:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. right, the Right, the right: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. right, right, the Right, the right: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. right: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. right, the right: Collins English Dictionary
  5. right: Vocabulary.com
  6. RIght, Right, Right, right, right, right, the-right: Wordnik
  7. right, the right: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. right: Wiktionary
  9. right: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. right: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. right: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. right, the right: Dictionary.com
  13. right (adj.1), right (adj.2), right (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. right: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Right (David Bowie song), Right (comics), Right (disambiguation), Right (ethics), Right (politics), Right, The Right (Germany), The Right (Italy), The Right (comics): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Right: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. right: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. right: Rhymezone
  19. right: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. right: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. right: Free Dictionary
  22. right: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Right, right: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Right (vs. Left): The Word Detective
  25. The Right, right, right (or left): Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. right: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RIGHT: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. Right: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. right: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. right: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Derivatives (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Right: bizterms.net
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. The Right, right: Legal dictionary
  12. Right, The Right: Financial dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. The Right, right: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. RIGHT: Acronym Finder
  4. The Right, right: Idioms
  5. right: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Right: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. right: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. right, right, right: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. right: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. right: Colloquial Speech of Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada
  5. Right: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  6. R.I.G.H.T, The Right, right, right: Urban Dictionary
  7. Right: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Right: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See righted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (archaic) Straight, not bent.
adjective:  (geometry) Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
adjective:  (geometry) Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.
adjective:  Complying with justice, correctness, or reason; correct, just, true.
adjective:  Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
adjective:  Healthy, sane, competent.
adjective:  Real; veritable (used emphatically).
adjective:  (Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
adjective:  (dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
adjective:  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: →
adjective:  (geography) Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's right when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the south bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥴ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the right side of the river.
adjective:  Designed to be placed or worn outward.
adjective:  (politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
adverb:  On the right side.
adverb:  Towards the right side.
adverb:  Exactly, precisely.
adverb:  Immediately, directly.
adverb:  (British, US, dialect) Very, extremely, quite.
adverb:  According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
adverb:  In a correct manner.
adverb:  (dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.
noun:  That which complies with justice, law or reason.
noun:  A legal, just or moral entitlement.
noun:  The right side or direction.
noun:  The right hand or fist.
noun:  The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright.
noun:  (politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
noun:  The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
noun:  (surfing) A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
verb:  (transitive) To correct.
verb:  (transitive) To set upright.
verb:  (intransitive) To return to normal upright position.
verb:  (transitive) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
noun:  (politics) The political right wing seen as a whole, as distinguished from an individual right-wing political party.

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