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Right \Right\, adv.

  1. In a right manner.

  2. 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.
    --Tennyson.

  3. Exactly; just. [Obs. or Colloq.]

    Came he right now to sing a raven's note?
    --Shak.

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

  5. According to any rule of art; correctly.

    You with strict discipline instructed right.
    --Roscommon.

  6. 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.
    --Fairfax.

  7. 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.

Usage examples of "right off".

I had looked in at his place while on a motor trip, and he had put me right off my feed by bringing a couple of green things with legs to the luncheon table, crooning over them like a young mother and eventually losing one of them in the salad.

Maybe because they had so much in common-antiques, running a family business, being newly married-they liked each other right off, quickly becoming simpatico, establishing a sense of being completely in tune with each other.