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Synonyms & Antonyms of right
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- everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
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- appanage
- (also apanage),
- birthright,
- prerogative
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- call,
- dibs,
- due,
- entitlement,
- perquisite,
- pretense
- (or pretence),
- pretension,
- privilege
- what right do you have to tell us what to do?
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- activists who have fought all their lives for right
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adjectiveSynonyms & Antonyms of right (Entry 2 of 4)
- a modern replica of an 18th-century British warship that is right in all of its details
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- despite the name, New York's East River is a strait and not a right river
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- bogus,
- counterfeit,
- fake,
- false,
- mock,
- phony
- (also phoney),
- pseudo,
- sham,
- spurious,
- suppositious,
- supposititious,
- unauthentic,
- unreal
- the obvious answer is not always the right one
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- trying to do what is right
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- a right woman who did not hang around waterfront bars
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- the first city in America laid out with broad, right avenues
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- he hasn't been right since he suffered serious brain injury in the accident
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- balmy,
- bananas,
- batty,
- bughouse
- [slang],
- certifiable,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crackpot,
- cranky
- [dialect],
- cuckoo,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dotty,
- fruity
- [slang],
- gaga,
- loco
- [slang],
- loony
- (also looney),
- loopy,
- meshuga
- (or meshugge also meshugah or meshuggah),
- moonstruck,
- nuts,
- nutty,
- scatty
- [chiefly British],
- screwy,
- wacko
- (also whacko),
- wacky
- (also whacky)
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- disturbed,
- neurotic,
- obsessive-compulsive,
- paranoiac
- (also paranoic),
- paranoid
- (also paranoidal),
- psycho,
- psychotic,
- schizo,
- schizoid,
- schizophrenic,
- schizy
- (or schizzy)
- distracted,
- distraught,
- frantic,
- frenzied,
- haywire,
- hysterical
- (also hysteric),
- raving,
- wigged-out
Antonyms for right
- the right tool for the job
Synonyms for right
- applicable,
- appropriate,
- apt,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- felicitous,
- fit,
- fitted,
- fitting,
- good,
- happy,
- meet,
- pretty,
- proper,
- suitable
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adverbSynonyms & Antonyms of right (Entry 3 of 4)
- stay right where you are
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- walk right over here now
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- a right beautiful day we're having!
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- achingly,
- almighty,
- archly,
- awful,
- awfully,
- badly,
- beastly,
- blisteringly,
- bone,
- colossally,
- corking,
- cracking,
- damn,
- damned,
- dang,
- deadly,
- desperately,
- eminently,
- enormously,
- especially,
- ever,
- exceedingly
- (also exceeding),
- extra,
- extremely,
- fabulously,
- fantastically,
- far,
- fiercely,
- filthy,
- frightfully,
- full,
- greatly,
- heavily,
- highly,
- hugely,
- immensely,
- incredibly,
- intensely,
- jolly,
- majorly,
- mightily,
- mighty,
- monstrous
- [chiefly dialect],
- mortally,
- most,
- much,
- particularly,
- passing,
- rattling,
- real,
- really,
- roaring,
- roaringly,
- seriously,
- severely,
- so,
- sore,
- sorely,
- spanking,
- specially,
- stinking,
- such,
- super,
- supremely,
- surpassingly,
- terribly,
- that,
- thumping,
- too,
- unco,
- uncommonly,
- vastly,
- very,
- vitally,
- way,
- whacking,
- wicked,
- wildly
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- you're not dressed right for an interview with a big-time law firm
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of right (Entry 4 of 4)
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“Right.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/right. Accessed 8 Aug. 2022.
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