The Collaborative International Dictionary
Right \Right\, adv.
In a right manner.
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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.
--Chaucer.Let thine eyes look right on.
--Prov. iv. 25.Right across its track there lay, Down in the water, a long reef of gold.
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Exactly; just. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Came he right now to sing a raven's note?
--Shak. According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.
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According to any rule of art; correctly.
You with strict discipline instructed right.
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According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right. ``Right at mine own cost.''
--Chaucer.Right as it were a steed of Lumbardye.
--Chaucer.His wounds so smarted that he slept right naught.
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In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant. ``He was not right fat''.
--Chaucer.For which I should be right sorry.
--Tyndale.[I] return those duties back as are right fit.
--Shak.Note: In this sense now chiefly prefixed to titles; as, right honorable; right reverend.
Right honorable, a title given in England to peers and peeresses, to the eldest sons and all daughters of such peers as have rank above viscounts, and to all privy councilors; also, to certain civic officers, as the lord mayor of London, of York, and of Dublin.
Note: Right is used in composition with other adverbs, as upright, downright, forthright, etc.
Right along, without cessation; continuously; as, to work right along for several hours. [Colloq. U.S.]
Right away, or Right off, at once; straightway; without delay. [Colloq. U.S.] ``We will . . . shut ourselves up in the office and do the work right off.''
--D. Webster.
WordNet
adv. all the time or over a period of time; "She had known all along"; "the hope had been there all along" [syn: all along]
Usage examples of "right along".
Everyone assumed they were after Kilthan, but you were with him each time they tried an ambush, and that fireship in Malgas would have fried your tripes right along with his.
He lashed at Shiba, the kind of feeble strike that would barely affect her through the bramble-guard, and which hit the horse right along with her.
Limousine moved right along, with an i from Kydd and an n from the computer.
And the good news is, that we're going to be risking the rest of our lives right along with his.
The puffs have been getting bigger and more ridiculous right along.
Not as she's ever given up doctoring, and she's had sick spells right along.
At the North Side of the prison, the path down to the Creek lay right along side of the Dead Line, which was a mere furrow in the ground.
She made a beeline toward an open doorway across the large room they'd entered, passing a hearth to her right along the way.