Right vs. Proper

Rightadjective

(archaic) Straight, not bent.

‘a right line’;

Properadjective

(heading) Suitable.

Rightadjective

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.’;

Properadjective

Suited or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable.

‘the proper time to plant potatoes’;

Rightadjective

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

‘I thought you'd made a mistake, but it seems you were right all along.’; ‘It's not right that one person gets all the credit for the group's work.’;

Properadjective

Following the established standards of behavior or manners; correct or decorous.

‘a very proper young lady’;

Rightadjective

Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.

‘Is this the right software for my computer?’;

Properadjective

(heading) Possessed, related.

Rightadjective

Healthy, sane, competent.

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

Properadjective

(grammar) Used to designate a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are usually written with an initial capital letter.

Rightadjective

Real; veritable (used emphatically).

‘You've made a right mess of the kitchen!’;

Properadjective

Pertaining exclusively to a specific thing or person; particular.

Rightadjective

(Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.

Properadjective

In the strict sense; within the strict definition or core (of a specified place, taxonomic order, idea, etc).

Rightadjective

(dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.

Properadjective

(archaic) Belonging to oneself or itself; own.

Rightadjective

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 slightly shorter than her left.’;

Properadjective

(heraldry) Portrayed in natural or usual coloration, as opposed to conventional tinctures.

Rightadjective

Designed to be placed or worn outward.

‘the right side of a piece of cloth’;

Properadjective

(mathematics) Being strictly part of some other (not necessarily explicitly mentioned, but of definitional importance) thing, and not being the thing itself.

‘proper subset — proper ideal’;

Rightadjective

(politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.

Properadjective

Eigen-; designating a function or value which is an eigenfunction or eigenvalue.

Rightadverb

On the right side.

Properadjective

(heading) Accurate, strictly applied.

Rightadverb

Towards the right side.

Properadjective

Excellent, of high quality; such as the specific person or thing should ideally be. (Now often merged with later senses.)

‘Now that was a proper breakfast.’;

Rightadverb

Exactly, precisely.

‘The arrow landed right in the middle of the target.’; ‘Luckily we arrived right at the start of the film.’;

Properadjective

Attractive, elegant.

Rightadverb

Immediately, directly.

‘Can't you see it? It's right beside you!’; ‘Tom was standing right in front of the TV, blocking everyone's view.’;

Properadjective

In the very strictest sense of the word.

Rightadverb

Very, extremely, quite.

‘I made a right stupid mistake there, didn't I?’; ‘I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much.’;

Properadjective

Utter, complete.

‘When I realized I was wearing my shirt inside out, I felt a proper fool.’;

Rightadverb

According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.

Properadverb

properly; thoroughly; completely

Rightadverb

In a correct manner.

‘Do it right or don't do it at all.’;

Properadverb

properly

Rightadverb

To a great extent or degree.

‘Sir, I am right glad to meet you …’; ‘Members of the Queen's Privy Council are styled The Right Honourable for life.’; ‘The Right Reverend Monsignor Guido Sarducci.’;

Properadjective

Belonging to one; one's own; individual.

‘Now learn the difference, at your proper cost,Betwixt true valor and an empty boast.’;

Rightinterjection

Yes, that is correct; I agree.

Properadjective

Belonging to the natural or essential constitution; peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his proper instincts and appetites.

‘Those high and peculiar attributes . . . which constitute our proper humanity.’;

Rightinterjection

I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion.

Properadjective

Befitting one's nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the proper element for fish; a proper dress.

‘The proper study of mankind is man.’; ‘In Athens all was pleasure, mirth, and play,All proper to the spring, and sprightly May.’;

Rightinterjection

Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.

‘- After that interview, I don't think we should hire her.
- Right — who wants lunch?’;

Properadjective

Becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome.

‘Moses . . . was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child.’;

Rightinterjection

Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance.

‘You're going, right?’;

Properadjective

Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; not appellative; - opposed to common; as, a proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city.

Rightinterjection

Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.

Properadjective

Rightly so called; strictly considered; as, Greece proper; the garden proper.

Rightnoun

That which complies with justice, law or reason.

‘We're on the side of right in this contest.’;

Properadjective

Represented in its natural color; - said of any object used as a charge.

Rightnoun

A legal or moral entitlement.

‘You have no right to go through my personal diary.’; ‘see also in right of’;

Properadverb

Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.

Rightnoun

The right side or direction.

‘The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.’;

Properadjective

marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness;

‘proper medical treatment’; ‘proper manners’;

Rightnoun

The right hand.

Properadjective

limited to the thing specified;

‘the city proper’; ‘his claim is connected with the deed proper’;

Rightnoun

(politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.

‘The political right holds too much power.’;

Properadjective

appropriate for a condition or occasion;

‘everything in its proper place’; ‘the right man for the job’; ‘she is not suitable for the position’;

Rightnoun

The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.

Properadjective

having all the qualities typical of the thing specified;

‘wanted a proper dinner; not just a snack’; ‘he finally has a proper job’;

Rightverb

(transitive) To correct.

‘Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible.’;

Properadjective

denoting something that is truly what it is said or regarded to be; genuine

‘she's never had a proper job’; ‘a proper meal’;

Rightverb

(transitive) To set upright.

‘The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.’;

Properadjective

strictly so called; in its true form

‘after this event, three countries will progress to the World Cup proper’;

Rightverb

(intransitive) To return to normal upright position.

‘When the wind died down, the ship righted.’;

Properadjective

used as an intensifier, especially in derogatory contexts

‘a proper little do-gooder, aren't I?’;

Rightverb

(transitive) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.

‘to right the oppressed’;

Properadjective

of the required or correct type or form; suitable or appropriate

‘they had not followed the proper procedures’; ‘an artist needs the proper tools’;

Rightadjective

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

Properadjective

according to or respecting social standards or conventions; respectable, especially excessively so

‘her parents' view of what was proper for a well-bred girl’; ‘a very prim and proper Swiss lady’;

Rightadjective

Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.

Properadjective

belonging or relating exclusively or distinctively to; particular to

‘the two elephant types proper to Africa and to southern Asia’;

Rightadjective

Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.

Properadjective

(of a psalm, lesson, prayer, etc.) appointed for a particular day, occasion, or season.

Rightadjective

Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true.

‘That which is conformable to the Supreme Rule is absolutely right, and is called right simply without relation to a special end.’;

Properadjective

belonging to oneself or itself; own

‘to judge with my proper eyes’;

Rightadjective

Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious.

‘In this battle, . . . the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians.’;

Properadjective

in the natural colours.

Rightadjective

According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith.

‘You are right, Justice, and you weigh this well.’; ‘If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is . . . right, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."’;

Properadjective

(of a person) good-looking

‘he is a proper youth!’;

Rightadjective

Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.

‘The lady has been disappointed on the right side.’;

Properadjective

denoting a subset or subgroup that does not constitute the entire set or group, especially one that has more than one element.

Rightadjective

Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; - opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals.

‘Became the sovereign's favorite, his right hand.’;

Properadverb

satisfactorily or correctly

‘my eyes were all blurry and I couldn't see proper’;

Rightadjective

Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.

Properadverb

thoroughly

‘he blotted his copybook good and proper’;

Rightadjective

Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth.

‘"Right," cries his lordship.’;

Propernoun

the part of a church service that varies with the season or feast

‘we go to the High Mass, with plainsong propers sung by the Ritual Choir’;

Rightadverb

In a right manner.

Rightadverb

In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide.

‘Unto Dian's temple goeth she right.’; ‘Let thine eyes look right on.’; ‘Right across its track there lay,Down in the water, a long reef of gold.’;

Rightadverb

Exactly; just.

‘Came he right now to sing a raven's note?’;

Rightadverb

According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.

Rightadverb

According to any rule of art; correctly.

‘You with strict discipline instructed right.’;

Rightadverb

According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right.

‘Right as it were a steed of Lumbardye.’; ‘His wounds so smarted that he slept right naught.’;

Rightadverb

In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant.

‘For which I should be right sorry.’; ‘[I] return those duties back as are right fit.’;

Rightnoun

That which is right or correct.

‘Seldom your opinions err;Your eyes are always in the right.’;

Rightnoun

A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.

‘Long love to her has borne the faithful knight,And well deserved, had fortune done him right.’;

Rightnoun

That to which one has a just claim.

‘There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties.’;

Rightnoun

That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.

‘Born free, he sought his right.’; ‘Hast thou not right to all created things?’; ‘Men have no right to what is not reasonable.’;

Rightnoun

The right side; the side opposite to the left.

‘Led her to the Souldan's right.’;

Rightnoun

Privilege or immunity granted by authority.

Rightnoun

In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.

Rightnoun

The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.

‘He should himself use it by right.’; ‘I should have been a woman by right.’;

Rightverb

To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.

Rightverb

To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.

‘So just is God, to right the innocent.’; ‘All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.’;

Rightverb

To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.

Rightverb

Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.

Rightnoun

an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature;

‘they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights’; ‘Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people’; ‘a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away’;

Rightnoun

(frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing;

‘mineral rights’; ‘film rights’;

Rightnoun

location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east;

‘he stood on the right’;

Rightnoun

a turn to the right;

‘take a right at the corner’;

Rightnoun

those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged

Rightnoun

anything in accord with principles of justice;

‘he feels he is in the right’; ‘the rightfulness of his claim’;

Rightnoun

the hand that is on the right side of the body;

‘he writes with his right hand but pitches with his left’; ‘hit him with quick rights to the body’;

Rightnoun

the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right

Rightverb

make reparations or amends for;

‘right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust’;

Rightverb

put in or restore to an upright position;

‘They righted the sailboat that had capsized’;

Rightverb

regain an upright or proper position;

‘The capsized boat righted again’;

Rightverb

make right or correct;

‘Correct the mistakes’; ‘rectify the calculation’;

Rightadjective

free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth;

‘the correct answer’; ‘the correct version’; ‘the right answer’; ‘took the right road’; ‘the right decision’;

Rightadjective

being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north;

‘my right hand’; ‘right center field’; ‘a right-hand turn’; ‘the right bank of a river is the bank on your right side when you are facing downstream’;

Rightadjective

socially right or correct;

‘it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye’; ‘correct behavior’;

Rightadjective

in conformance with justice or law or morality;

‘do the right thing and confess’;

Rightadjective

correct in opinion or judgment;

‘time proved him right’;

Rightadjective

appropriate for a condition or occasion;

‘everything in its proper place’; ‘the right man for the job’; ‘she is not suitable for the position’;

Rightadjective

of or belonging to the political or intellectual left

Rightadjective

in or into a satisfactory condition;

‘things are right again now’; ‘put things right’;

Rightadjective

intended for the right hand;

‘a right-hand glove’;

Rightadjective

in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;

‘what's the right word for this?’; ‘the right way to open oysters’;

Rightadjective

having the axis perpendicular to the base;

‘a right angle’;

Rightadjective

of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face outward;

‘the right side of the cloth showed the pattern’; ‘be sure your shirt is right side out’;

Rightadjective

most suitable or right for a particular purpose;

‘a good time to plant tomatoes’; ‘the right time to act’; ‘the time is ripe for great sociological changes’;

Rightadverb

precisely, exactly;

‘stand right here!’;

Rightadverb

immediately;

‘she called right after dinner’;

Rightadverb

exactly;

‘he fell flop on his face’;

Rightadverb

toward or on the right; also used figuratively;

‘he looked right and left’; ‘the party has moved right’;

Rightadverb

in the right manner;

‘please do your job properly!’; ‘can't you carry me decent?’;

Rightadverb

an interjection expressing agreement

Rightadverb

completely;

‘she felt right at home’; ‘he fell right into the trap’;

Rightadverb

(Southern regional intensive) very;

‘the baby is mighty cute’; ‘he's mighty tired’; ‘it is powerful humid’; ‘that boy is powerful big now’; ‘they have a right nice place’;

Rightadverb

in accordance with moral or social standards;

‘that serves him right’; ‘do right by him’;

Rightadverb

in a correct manner;

‘he guessed right’;