Complying with justice, correctness, or reason; correct, just, true. See also the interjection senses below.
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That's not the right thing to do.
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So I was right all along? C'mon. I want to hear you say it.
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If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is certainly right, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."
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1610, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II:
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there are some dispositions blame-worthy in men, which are yet, in a right sense, holily ascribed unto God; as unchangeableness, and irrepentance.
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1808, Bishop Joseph Hall, Devotional works:
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What do you send me into London for, giving me only the right to call for my dinner at the Black Lion, which you’re to pay for next time you go, as if I was not to be trusted with a few shillings? Why do you use me like this? It’s not right of you. You can’t expect me to be quiet under it.
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1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 13, in Barnaby Rudge:
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Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead.Gene Hunt: So I'm right.Sam Tyler: We both are.Gene Hunt: Right.Sam Tyler: Right.Gene Hunt: Just as long as I'm more right than you.
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2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:
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But when that patient requests access to medical care that violates some religious tenet, is it right that he or she either be denied outright or forced to seek an alternative facility?
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2018 January 4, Catherine Ford, “Religious-Based Health Care Raises Ethical Questions”, in Calgary Herald:
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Of course, I was not always right. I questioned the value of Crossrail (a scheme revived by Prescott after being scrapped by the Conservatives), suggesting wrongly that it may be "doomed to hit the buffers" […] . A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders. We are all allowed to change our minds.
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2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 61: