Definitions for righter

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righter right·er

Spelling: [rahy-ter]

IPA: /ˈraɪ tər/

Righter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in righter (eghirrt).

Definitions for righter

noun

1. a person who rights or redresses:
2. a person who advocates or endorses rights, especially equal rights, for a particular group:
3. a just claim or title, whether legal, prescriptive, or moral:
4. Sometimes, rights. that which is due to anyone by just claim, legal guarantees, moral principles, etc.:
5. adherence or obedience to moral and legal principles and authority.
6. that which is morally, legally, or ethically proper:
7. a moral, ethical, or legal principle considered as an underlying cause of truth, justice, morality, or ethics.
8. Sometimes, rights. the interest or ownership a person, group, or business has in property:
9. the property itself or its value.
10. Finance. the privilege, usually preemptive, that accrues to the owners of the stock of a corporation to subscribe to additional shares of stock or securities convertible into stock at an advantageous price. Often, rights. the privilege of subscribing to a specified amount of a stock or bond issue, or the document certifying this privilege.
11. that which is in accord with fact, reason, propriety, the correct way of thinking, etc.
12. the state or quality or an instance of being correct.
13. the side that is normally opposite to that where the heart is; the direction toward that side:
14. a right-hand turn:
15. the portion toward the right, as of troops in battle formation:
16. (in a pair) the member that is shaped for, used by, or situated on the right side:
17. the right hand:
18. the Right. the complex of individuals or organized groups opposing change in a liberal direction and usually advocating maintenance of the established social, political, or economic order. the position held by these people: Compare left1 (defs 6a, b). right wing.
19. (usually initial capital letter) the part of a legislative assembly, especially in continental Europe, that is situated on the right side of the presiding officer and that is customarily assigned to members of the legislature who hold more conservative or reactionary views than the rest of the members.
20. the members of such an assembly who sit on the Right.
21. Boxing. a blow delivered by the right hand:
22. Baseball. right field.

Idioms

1. by rights, in fairness; justly:
2. in one's own right, by reason of one's own ability, ownership, etc.; in or of oneself, as independent of others:
3. in the right, having the support of reason or law; correct:
4. right and left, on every side; in all directions:
5. right away / off, without hesitation; immediately:
6. right on, Slang. exactly right; precisely.
7. too right, Australian Slang. (used as an expression of emphatic agreement.) okay: .
8. to rights, into proper condition or order:

adverb

1. in a straight or direct line; straight; directly:
2. quite or completely; all the way:
3. immediately; promptly:
4. exactly; precisely:
5. correctly or accurately:
6. uprightly or righteously:
7. properly or fittingly:
8. advantageously, favorably, or well:
9. toward the right hand; on or to the right:
10. Archaic or Dialect. very; extremely:
11. very (used in certain titles):

adjective

1. in accordance with what is good, proper, or just:
2. in conformity with fact, reason, truth, or some standard or principle; correct:
3. correct in judgment, opinion, or action.
4. fitting or appropriate; suitable:
5. most convenient, desirable, or favorable:
6. of, relating to, or located on or near the side of a person or thing that is turned toward the east when the subject is facing north (opposed to left).
7. in a satisfactory state; in good order:
8. sound, sane, or normal:
9. in good health or spirits:
10. principal, front, or upper:
11. (often initial capital letter) of or relating to political conservatives or their beliefs.
12. socially approved, desirable, or influential:
13. formed by or with reference to a perpendicular:
14. straight:
15. Geometry. having an axis perpendicular to the base:
16. Mathematics. pertaining to an element of a set that has a given property when placed on the right of an element or set of elements of the given set:
17. genuine; authentic:

verb (used with object)

1. to put in or restore to an upright position:
2. to put in proper order, condition, or relationship:
3. to bring into conformity with fact; correct:
4. to do justice to; avenge:
5. to redress, as a wrong.

verb (used without object)

1. to resume an upright or the proper position:

Origin of righter

before 900; Middle English rightar executioner, Old English rihtere one who regulates. See right, -er¹

Examples for righter

If we look at it to see where it is wrong, we shall see this and make it righter.

His mind is righter than others, because he yields to a current so feeble as can be felt only by a needle delicately poised.

If we look at it to see where it is right, we shall see this and shall not make it righter.

Look here, you righter of wrongs, you who preach to others and go making love to their wives!

And keep on the other side of the street from the woman's righter as long as you can.

Then the poor would be rich, which was right, and the rich would be poor, which was righter still.

Tom's drinked agin, and feels kind o' righter than he did--kind o' first best!

Nelson Smith had no business to say, 'This island ain't just right,' for it was a righter place than ever I seen elsewhere.

There is hardly a righter and better hit-off tale of the kind, even in French.

If we get right, who knows but other folks may get righter in consequence?