Righter vs Righted - What's the difference?
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(right)
One who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong.
(right)
(archaic) Straight, not bent.
Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.
* (John Locke)
* Bishop Joseph Hall
Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
Healthy, sane, competent.
Real; veritable.
* Milton
(Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
* 1986 David Williamson, "What If You Died Tomorrow," Collected plays , Volume 1, Currency Press, p310
* 2001 Catherine Menagé, Access to English, National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, NSW: Sydney, p25
* 2001 Morris Gleitzman, Two weeks with the Queen, Pan Macmillan Australia, p75
(dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
* Spectator
Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points to the right: ?
Designed to be placed or worn outward.
(politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
On the right side.
Towards the right side.
Yes, that is correct; I agree.
I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion.
(non-gloss definition).
(Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance).
* 1987 , :
That which complies with justice, law or reason.
A legal or moral entitlement.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
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(politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
To correct.
To set upright.
To return to normal upright position.
To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
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Exactly, precisely.
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According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
In a correct manner.
To a great extent or degree.
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As an adjective righter
is comparative of right.As a noun righter
is one who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong.As a verb righted is
past tense of right.righter
English
Adjective
(head)Noun
(en noun)- (Shelton)
righted
English
Verb
(head)right
English
(re-split by etym)Alternative forms
* (informal)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- a right line
- The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall.
- 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.
- If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is right , "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."
- there are some dispositions blame-worthy in men, which are yet, in a right sense, holily ascribed unto God; as unchangeableness, and irrepentance.
- Is this the right software for my computer?
- I'm afraid my father is no longer in his right mind.
- You've made a right mess of the kitchen!
- In this battle, the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians.
- KIRSTY: I suppose you're hungry. Would you like something to eat? / KEN: No. I'm right , thanks.
- When the sales assistant sees the customer, she asks Are you right , sir?'' This means ''Are you all right? She wants to know if he needs any help.
- 'You lost?' / Colin spun round. Looking at him was a nurse, her eyebrows raised. / 'No, I'm right , thanks,' said Colin.'
- The lady has been disappointed on the right side.
- After the accident, her right leg was slighly shorter than her left.
- the right side of a piece of cloth
Synonyms
* (correctness) correct, just * dexter, dextral, right-hand * (politics) conservative, right-wing * (as a tag question) seeAntonyms
* (straightness) bowed, crooked, curved * (correctness) wrong * leftDerived terms
* a broken clock is right twice a day * alright, all right * do right by * in one's right mind * it's all right * right angle * right as a trivet * right as rain * right away * rightdom * righteous * right hand * right handed, right-handed * right-hand man * righthood * rightly * right-minded * rightness * right off * right off the bat * right of way * Right Reverend * right triangle * she'll be rightAdverb
(-)Interjection
(en interjection)- - After that interview, I don't think we should hire her.
- Right — who wants lunch?
- You're going, right ?
- Withnail: Right ... I'm gonna do the washing up.
Derived terms
* yeah rightNoun
(wikipedia right) (en noun)- There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties.
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Cronies and capitols, passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}
Synonyms
* (right side) starboard,Antonyms
* (legal or moral entitlement) duty, obligationDerived terms
* bragging rights * human rights * Miranda rights * rightful * right of first refusal * shop right * to the right * two wrongs don't make a right * two wrongs make a rightEtymology 2
(etyl) , from riht, from the same ultimate source as Etymology 1, above.Verb
(en verb)- Righting all the wrongs of the war will be impossible.
- The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.
- When the wind died down, the ship righted .
- to right the oppressed
- 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.
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Adverb
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- The fog was right hard to see through so I was on Tom Pritchard before I saw him.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=He b'iled right over, and the tongue-lashing he give that boss Right Liver beat anything I ever listened to. There was heap of Scriptur' language in it, and more brimstone than you'd find in a match factory.}}