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.
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.