Synonyms of the word right


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right

  • adj. (archaic) Straight, not bent.
  • adj. Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two…
  • adj. Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.
  • adj. Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
  • adj. Healthy, sane, competent.
  • adj. Real; veritable.
  • adj. (Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
  • adj. (dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
  • adj. Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points…
  • adj. Designed to be placed or worn outward.
  • adj. (politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
  • adv. On the right side.
  • adv. Towards the right side.
  • interj. Yes, that is correct; I agree.
  • interj. I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion.
  • interj. Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
  • interj. Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance.
  • interj. Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
  • n. That which complies with justice, law or reason.
  • n. A legal or moral entitlement.
  • n. The right side or direction.
  • n. The right hand.
  • n. (politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
  • n. The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
  • v. To correct.
  • v. To set upright.
  • v. (intransitive) To return to normal upright position.
  • v. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
  • adv. Exactly, precisely.
  • adv. Immediately, directly.
  • adv. (Britain, US, dialect) Very, extremely, quite.
  • adv. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
  • adv. In a correct manner.
  • adv. (dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.

abstract

  • n. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
  • n. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
  • n. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
  • n. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
  • n. (art) An abstract work of art.
  • n. (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of…
  • adj. (obsolete) Derived; extracted.
  • adj. (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
  • adj. Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object.
  • adj. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general,…
  • adj. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
  • adj. (archaic) Absent-minded.
  • adj. (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships…
  • adj. Insufficiently factual.
  • adj. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
  • adj. (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
  • adj. (computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than…
  • v. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
  • v. (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
  • v. (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
  • v. (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
  • v. (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically;…
  • v. (intransitive, reflexive, literally figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
  • v. (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
  • v. (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
  • v. (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
  • v. (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used…

abstraction

  • n. The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken…
  • n. A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
  • n. The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics;…
  • n. The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the…
  • n. An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
  • n. Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
  • n. (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational…
  • n. (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
  • n. An idea of an unrealistic or visionary nature.
  • n. The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the results of said process.
  • n. (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so,…
  • n. (computing) Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality…
  • n. (computing) Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.

accurate

  • adj. In exact or careful conformity to truth; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; which gives truthful…
  • adj. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
  • adj. (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

appropriate

  • adj. (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
  • adj. Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
  • adj. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially…
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To make suitable; to suit.
  • v. (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
  • v. (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all…
  • v. (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation,…

aright

  • adv. Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
  • v. (transitive) To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

compensate

  • v. To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
  • v. To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy;…
  • v. To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.

conservative

  • n. A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
  • n. (US, economics) A fiscal conservative.
  • n. (US, politics) A political conservative.
  • n. (US, social sciences) A social conservative.
  • adj. Cautious.
  • adj. Tending to resist change or innovation.
  • adj. Based on pessimistic assumptions.
  • adj. (US, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social…
  • adj. (Britain, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
  • adj. (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
  • adj. Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
  • adj. (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
  • adj. (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish,…

correct

  • adj. Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
  • adj. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
  • v. (transitive) To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
  • v. (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
  • v. (transitive) To inform (someone) of the latter's error.

correctly

  • adv. In a correct manner.

decent

  • adj. (obsolete) Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances.
  • adj. (of a person) Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other…
  • adj. (informal) Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen.
  • adj. Fair; good enough; okay.
  • adj. Significant; substantial.
  • adj. (obsolete) Comely; shapely; well-formed.

decently

  • adv. In a decent manner.
  • adv. To a reasonable or acceptable degree.

ethical

  • adj. (philosophy, not comparable) Of or relating to the study of ethics.
  • adj. (not comparable) Of or relating to the accepted principles of right and wrong, especially those of some…
  • adj. (comparable) Morally approvable; good.
  • adj. (of a drug, not comparable) Only dispensed on the prescription of a physician.
  • n. An ethical drug.

exact

  • adj. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor…
  • adj. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
  • adj. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
  • adj. (algebra, of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism…
  • v. (transitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of.
  • v. (transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
  • v. (transitive) To forcibly obtain or produce.
  • adv. exactly.

faction

  • n. A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion…
  • n. Strife; discord.
  • n. A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact…

far

  • adj. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) Distant.
  • adj. Remote in space.
  • adj. Remote in time.
  • adj. Long.
  • adj. More remote or longer of two.
  • adj. Extreme.
  • adj. Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
  • adj. (computing, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
  • adv. Distant in space, time or degree.
  • adv. To or from a great distance, time, or degree.
  • adv. (with a comparative) Very much.
  • n. Spelt (type of wheat).
  • n. A young pig, or a litter of pigs.

far-right

  • adj. (politics) Extremely right-wing.

flop

  • v. To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
  • v. To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).
  • v. (sports) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer).
  • v. To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise…
  • v. (poker, transitive) To participate in the flop, thus building one's hand with the first community cards.
  • v. (slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
  • n. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
  • n. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
  • n. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
  • n. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
  • adv. Right, squarely, flat-out.
  • adv. With a flopping sound.
  • n. (computing) A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.

good

  • adj. (of people).
  • adj. (of capabilities).
  • adj. (of properties and qualities).
  • adj. (colloquial) With "and", extremely.
  • adj. Holy (especially when capitalized).
  • adj. (of quantities).
  • interj. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
  • adv. (nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
  • n. (uncountable) The forces or behaviors that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and…
  • n. (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
  • n. (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes…
  • n. (countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.
  • v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make good; turn to good; improve.
  • v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make improvements or repairs.
  • v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To benefit; gain.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
  • v. (reflexive, now chiefly dialectal) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

hand

  • n. The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other…
  • n. (heading) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
  • n. (heading) In linear measurement.
  • n. A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
  • n. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
  • n. An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special…
  • n. An instance of helping.
  • n. Handwriting; style of penmanship.
  • n. A person's autograph or signature.
  • n. Personal possession; ownership.
  • n. (usually in the plural, hands) Management, domain, control.
  • n. (heading) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
  • n. Applause.
  • n. (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar,…
  • n. (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
  • n. A whole rhizome of ginger.
  • n. The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of…
  • n. (archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
  • n. (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
  • n. (obsolete) Rate; price.
  • v. (transitive) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
  • v. (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To manage.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
  • v. (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
  • v. (transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.

honorable

  • adj. (US) Worthy of respect; respectable.
  • adj. (Commonwealth of Nations, politics) Misspelling of honourable.

honourable

  • adj. (Britain, Canada) Alternative form of honorable.
  • adj. (Commonwealth of Nations, politics) A courtesy title applied to a cabinet minister, minister of state,…

interest

  • n. (uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in…
  • n. (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
  • n. (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
  • n. (countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other…
  • n. (countable) Something one is interested in.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
  • n. (usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
  • v. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person…
  • v. (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
  • v. (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.

just

  • adj. Factually right, correct; factual.
  • adj. Rationally right, correct.
  • adj. Morally right; upright, righteous, equitable; fair.
  • adj. Proper, adequate.
  • adv. Only, simply, merely.
  • adv. (sentence adverb) Used to reduce the force of an imperative; simply.
  • adv. (speech act) Used to convey a less serious or formal tone.
  • adv. (speech act) Used to show humility.
  • adv. (degree) absolutely, positively.
  • adv. Moments ago, recently.
  • adv. By a narrow margin; closely; nearly.
  • adv. Exactly, precisely, perfectly.
  • n. A joust, tournament.
  • v. To joust, fight a tournament.

justice

  • n. The state or characteristic of being just or fair.
  • n. The ideal of fairness, impartiality, etc., especially with regard to the punishment of wrongdoing.
  • n. Judgment and punishment of a party who has allegedly wronged another.
  • n. The civil power dealing with law.
  • n. A title given to judges of certain courts; capitalized as a title.
  • n. Correctness, conforming to reality or rules.

justly

  • adv. In a just or fair manner; rightfully.
  • adv. With a just or fair use of language; with good reason, properly.
  • adv. (obsolete) With great precision; accurately, exactly.

justness

  • n. the state of being just; fairness.

letter-perfect

  • adj. Exactly correct, correct in every letter.

manus

  • n. (formal) A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a man, or the corresponding part in…
  • n. (obsolete, Roman law) The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife.

mighty

  • n. Influential, powerful beings.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) A warrior of great strength and courage.
  • adj. Very strong; possessing might.
  • adj. Very heavy and powerful.
  • adj. Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
  • adj. (informal) Excellent, extremely good.
  • adv. (colloquial) Very; to a high degree.

mitt

  • n. A mitten.
  • n. An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
  • n. (informal, especially in plural) A hand.

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

moral

  • adj. Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
  • adj. Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical…
  • adj. Capable of right and wrong action.
  • adj. Probable but not proved.
  • adj. Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
  • n. (of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.
  • n. Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
  • n. (obsolete) A morality play.

opportune

  • adj. Suitable for some particular purpose.
  • adj. At a convenient or advantageous time.

outside

  • n. The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
  • n. The external appearance of something.
  • n. The space beyond some limit or boundary.
  • n. The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
  • n. (dated, Britain, colloquial) A passenger riding on the outside of a coach or carriage.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
  • adj. Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
  • adj. (baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
  • adj. Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc.
  • adv. Outdoors.
  • prep. On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building).
  • prep. Near, but not in.
  • prep. (usually with “of”) Except, apart from.

parcel

  • n. A package wrapped for shipment.
  • n. An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
  • n. A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
  • n. (obsolete) A group of birds.
  • n. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
  • n. A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
  • n. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
  • v. To wrap something up into the form of a package.
  • v. To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
  • v. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into.
  • v. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
  • adv. (obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.

paw

  • n. The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable…
  • n. (humorous) A hand.
  • v. (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws.
  • v. (of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw.
  • v. (of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
  • v. (by extension, of a human) To touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way.
  • v. (by extension, of a human) To clumsily dig through something.
  • n. (nonstandard or rural) Father; pa.

perpendicular

  • adj. (geometry) At or forming a right angle (to).
  • n. (geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
  • n. A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.

place

  • n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
  • n. A location or position in space.
  • n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
  • n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
  • n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
  • n. A frame of mind.
  • n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
  • n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
  • n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
  • n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
  • n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
  • n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
  • v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
  • v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
  • v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
  • v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
  • v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
  • v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
  • v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

position

  • n. A place or location.
  • n. A post of employment; a job.
  • n. A status or rank.
  • n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
  • n. A posture.
  • n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
  • n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
  • n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
  • n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
  • v. To put into place.

powerful

  • adj. Having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence.
  • adj. (mining) Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.

precise

  • adj. Exact, accurate.
  • adj. (sciences) Of experimental results, consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other. This…
  • v. (used by non-native speakers or in jargons, transitive) To make or render precise.

proper

  • adj. (heading) Suitable.
  • adj. (heading) Possessed, related.
  • adj. (heading) Accurate, strictly applied.
  • adv. (Scotland) properly; thoroughly; completely.
  • adv. (nonstandard, slang) properly.

properly

  • adv. in a proper manner.
  • adv. (obsolete) individually; in one's own manner.

reactionary

  • adj. Politically favoring a return to a supposed golden age of the past.
  • adj. (chemistry) Of, pertaining to, participating in or inducing a chemical reaction.
  • n. One who is opposed to change.
  • n. One who is very conservative.

reactionist

  • adj. reactionary.
  • n. reactionary.

rectify

  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To heal (an organ or part of the body).
  • v. (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
  • v. (transitive) To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
  • v. (transitive, chemistry) To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
  • v. (transitive) To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To correct (someone who is mistaken).
  • v. (transitive, geodesy, now historical) To adjust (a globe) in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed…
  • v. (transitive, electronics) To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
  • v. (transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky,…

redress

  • v. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
  • v. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
  • v. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To put upright again; to restore.
  • n. The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
  • n. A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification;…
  • n. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
  • v. To dress again.
  • v. (film) To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
  • n. (film) The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

reverse

  • adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
  • adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
  • adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
  • adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
  • adj. (botany) Reversed.
  • adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
  • adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
  • n. The opposite of something.
  • n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
  • n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
  • n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
  • n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
  • n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
  • n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
  • n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
  • v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
  • v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
  • v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
  • v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
  • v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
  • v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
  • v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
  • v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
  • v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
  • v. To overthrow; to subvert.

right-hand

  • adj. of, relating to, or located on the right.
  • adj. designed for use by the right hand.
  • adj. in the direction or orientation to the right-hand rule (a right-hand thread).

right-handed

  • adj. Using their right hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, their left.
  • adj. (not comparable) Intended to be worn on, or used by, the right hand.
  • adj. (not comparable) Turning or spiralling from left to right; clockwise.
  • adj. (physics) Of a particle for which the direction of its spin is the same as the direction of its motion.
  • n. Right-handed people, taken as a whole.

right-minded

  • adj. Sane, clear thinking.
  • adj. Decent, morally upright; in moral agreement with a position.

right-wing

  • adj. (politics)Political ideologies opposing political and social equality, especially conservative, traditional…

rightfulness

  • n. The state or quality of being rightful.

rightish

  • adj. Somewhat correct.
  • adj. In a direction roughly to the right.
  • adj. Towards the political right.

rightist

  • n. One who believes in the politics or policies of the political right.
  • n. (in combination) One who supports the rights of a specified group.

rightmost

  • adj. Furthest to the right.

ripe

  • adj. (of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature;.
  • adj. (of foods) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
  • adj. (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
  • adj. (archaic) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
  • adj. Ready for action or effect; prepared.
  • adj. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
  • adj. (obsolete) Intoxicated.
  • adj. (law) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by…
  • adj. Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
  • n. (agriculture) A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
  • v. To ripen or mature.
  • n. The bank of a river.

satisfactory

  • adj. Done to satisfaction; adequate or sufficient.

sect

  • n. An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious…
  • n. A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
  • n. (obsolete) A cutting; a scion.

stake

  • n. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven…
  • n. A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer,…
  • n. (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned.
  • n. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
  • n. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
  • n. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths,…
  • n. (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical…
  • v. (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
  • v. (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
  • v. (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
  • v. (transitive) To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business…

starboard

  • n. The right hand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Starboard does…
  • n. (nautical) One of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two.
  • v. (nautical, transitive) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.

straight

  • adj. Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
  • adj. (obsolete, rare) Strait; narrow.
  • adj. Figurative uses.
  • adj. Colloquial uses.
  • adj. (sciences, mathematics) concerning the property allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course…
  • adv. Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
  • adv. Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
  • adv. Continuously; without interruption or pause.
  • n. Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
  • n. (poker) Five cards in sequence.
  • n. (colloquial) A heterosexual.
  • n. (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
  • n. (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana. Also straighter.
  • v. (transitive) To straighten.

suitable

  • adj. Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.

suited

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of suit.
  • adj. (poker, of two or more cards) Of the same suit.

tract

  • n. An area or expanse.
  • n. A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.
  • n. A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
  • n. A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
  • n. A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
  • n. Continued or protracted duration, length, extent.
  • n. Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used…
  • n. (obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
  • n. (obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
  • n. (obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.
  • n. (obsolete) Track; trace.
  • n. (obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
  • v. (obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
  • v. (obsolete) To draw out; to protract.

true

  • adj. (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
  • adj. Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
  • adj. (logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
  • adj. Loyal, faithful.
  • adj. Genuine.
  • adj. Legitimate.
  • adj. (of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf, etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
  • adj. (chiefly probability) Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
  • adv. (of shooting, throwing etc) Accurately.
  • n. Truth.
  • n. The state of being in alignment.
  • v. To straighten.
  • v. To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.

turn

  • v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
  • v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
  • v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
  • v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
  • v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  • v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
  • v. (archaic) To translate.
  • n. A change of direction or orientation.
  • n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
  • n. A single loop of a coil.
  • n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
  • n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
  • n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
  • n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
  • n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
  • n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
  • n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
  • n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
  • n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. A deed done to another.
  • n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
  • n. Character; personality; nature.
  • n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

turning

  • n. (Britain) A turn or deviation from a straight course.
  • n. (field hockey) At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their…
  • n. The shaping of wood or metal on a lathe.
  • n. The act of turning.
  • n. (plural only) Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.
  • v. present participle of turn.

word-perfect

  • adj. (Britain, theater) Having memorized one's lines perfectly.

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