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Definition: Aright |
ArightAdverb1. In a correct manner; "he guessed right". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aright" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Aright \A*right"\, adverb. [Prefix a- right.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ArightSynonyms: correctly (adv), right (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: incorrectly (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Good | Adverb: well, aright, satisfactorily, favorably, not amis; all for the best; to one's advantage; Noun: in one's favor, in one's interest; n. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Aright |
| Specialty definitions using "aright": Abus, Astolpho ♦ Dutch Clocks ♦ Humber. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Aright, nobody move (Shrek; writing credit: Ted Elliott) | |
Lyrics | Aright you ready (I Wanna Rock; performing artist: Prince) We rollin aright (I Wanna Rock; performing artist: Prince) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | John Smith, yep tha's me all aright ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright. |
T. L. Cuyler | God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears that they may read aright his providence and his commandments. |
Thomas Traherne | You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars. |
William Shakespeare | Report me and my cause aright. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | This being usually brought about by such in the commonwealth who misuse the power they have; it is hard to consider it aright, and know at whose door to lay it, without knowing the form of government in which it happens. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Aright" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aright" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "aright": if i remember aright ♦ see aright ♦ set aright. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aright | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "aright"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | drejt (direct, directly, endlong, erect, fair, flat, orderly, plump, right, rightly, smack, Square, straight, to, toward, towards). (various references) | |
Arabic | على ما يرام (all right, ok, okay, okey, smasher), على نحو قويم, صحيح (accurate, alright, be in the right, consonantal, correct, entire, exact, faithful, hale, honest, indeed, ortho, plumb, precise, proper, pure, real, reasonable, regular, right, seemly, sincere, true, unbroken, valid, veracious, veritable, whole). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вярно (faithfully, sic, surely, true, truly, truthfully, yea), правилно (correctly, exactly, hear! hear, just so, justly, okay, properly, regularly, right, rightly, that's right, true, true enough). (various references) | |
Chinese | 正确地 (Correctly). (various references) | |
Czech | správnì (all right, by rights, correctly, duly, precisely, properly, right, rightly). (various references) | |
French | juste, correctement. (various references) | |
German | richtig (accurate, affirmative, correct, correctly, duly, exact, fit, justly, proper, properly, quite, real, really, regular, right, rightly, thoroughly, true, unmitigated, unmitigatedly). (various references) | |
Greek | σωστά (correctly, properly), ορθώσ (aptly, right). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כ"לכ" (properly, right, soundly, well). (various references) | |
Hungarian | jól (fair, fine, have a good grip of the situation, have a good grip on the situation, light, nicely, on the beam, right, tiptop, to come through, to dress sy down good and proper, to give it sy, to give it to sy, to give sy beans, to send sy away with a flea in sy's ear, well), helyesen (correctly, duly, fair, on the beam, properly, rightly, sensibly, true, well). (various references) | |
Italian | giustamente (correctly, exactly, fairly, justly, right, rightly, sharp), bene (all right, asset, cool, fine, gift, good, o.k., OK, okay, possession, properly, really, right, very, well, wide). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arightay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | corretamente (correctly, properly, right, rightly), certamente (all right, by all means, certainly, indeed, naturally, sure, surely). (various references) | |
Romanian | corect (accurate, correct, correctly, exact, fair, faultless, flawless, honest, just, justly, mensurable, perfect, precise, right, rightful, rightly, Square, upright), bine (advantage, allright, blessing, boon, fine, fortune, gain, good, good looking, honorable, honourable, interest, okay, right, rightly, stately, that's settled, up to the mark, well, well then). (various references) | |
Russian | правильно (correctly, properly, regularly, right, rightly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tačno (accurately, due to, exactly, nearly, notedly, ok, okay, okey, precisely, promptly), pravilno (duly, normally, regularly, right, well). (various references) | |
Spanish | recto (correct, exact, exactly, forehand, honest, just, lined, proper, reach, rectum, right, single-breasted, straight, upright, upstanding), rectamente (endways, endwise, fairly, uprightly), justamente (exactly, fairly, just, justly, sharp). (various references) | |
Swedish | riktigt (exactly, justly, properly, real, really, right, truly), rätt (authority, bang, claim, correct, course, dish, fair, fairly, full, jolly, justice, law, law court, o.k., ok, okay, okeydokey, pretty, proper, quite, rather, right, right hand, righteousness, right-hand, rightly, straight, the right, tribunal, true, warrant). (various references) | |
Thai | อย่างถูกต้อง (exactly, rightly). (various references) | |
Turkish | doğru biçimde, doğru (above board, according to cocker, according to hoyle, accurate, authentic, cheese, correct, direct, due, exact, exactly, fair, fair enough, faithful, for, guileless, honest, honest injun, just, on time, ortho-, orthodox, precisely, prompt, proper, punctual, quite so, right, righteous, sincere, spot-on, Square, straight, straight as a die, straight line, the right, the thing, the truth, thro, through, thru, true, truthful, up to, upstanding). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вірно (correctly, faithfully, fast, justly, true), правильно (accurately, alright, correctly, duly, normally, o.k., ok, okay, okey, properly, regular, regularly, right, right on, rightly, straight, that's right). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đúng (actually, apt, aptly, correct, due, exact, fair, fitting, just, precise, precisely, proper, properly, right, rightly, true, very). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 31 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Mh mequskesqe oinw alla omileite anqrwpoiV dikaioiV kai omileite en peripatoiV ean gar eiV taV fialaV kai ta pothria dwV touV ofqalmouV sou usteron peripathseiV gumnoteroV uperou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ne intuearis vinum quando flavescit cum splenduerit in vitro color eius ingreditur blande |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Ne beholde thou the win, whan it floureth, whan shal shine in the verr the colour of it. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down: |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 31 |
| Cebuano | Dili ka magtan-aw sa vino kong kini magapula, Kong kini magapangidlap sulod sa copa, Sa diha nga kini magaagay nga mahapsay: |
| Croatian | Ne gledaj na vino kad rujno iskri, kad se u èaši svjetlucavo prelijeva: pije se tako glatko, |
| Danish | Se ikke til Vinen, hvor rød den er, hvorledes den perler i Bægeret; den glider så glat, |
| Dutch | Zie den wijn niet aan, als hij zich rood vertoont, als hij in den beker zijn verve geeft, als hij recht opgaat; |
| Finnish | Älä katsele viiniä, kuinka se punoittaa, kuinka se maljassa hohtaa ja helposti valahtaa alas. |
| French | Ne regarde pas le vin qui paraît d`un beau rouge, Qui fait des perles dans la coupe, Et qui coule aisément. |
| German | Siehe den Wein nicht an, daß er so rot ist und im Glase so schön steht. Er geht glatt ein; |
| Hungarian | Ne nézd a bort, mily veres színt játszik, mint mutatja a pohárban az õ csillogását; könnyen alá csuszamlik, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Janganlah membiarkan anggur menggodamu, sekalipun warnanya sangat menarik dan nampaknya berkilauan dalam gelas serta mengalir masuk dengan nikmat ke dalam tenggorokan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jangan engkau pandang akan air anggur apabila merah rupanya, apabila ia berkilat dalam piala serta buihnya naik ke atas. |
| Maori | Kaua e titiro ki te waina i te mea e whero ana, ina puta tona kara i roto i te kapu, ina mania tona heke. |
| Norwegian | Se ikke til vinen, hvor rød den er, hvorledes den perler i begeret, hvor lett den går ned! |
| Portuguese | Não olhes para o vinho quando se mostra vermelho, quando resplandece no copo e se escoa suavemente. |
| Rumanian | Nu te uita la vin cknd curge row wi face mqrgqritare kn pahar; el alunecq uwor, |
| Russian | оЕ УНПФТЙ ОБ ЧЙОП, ЛБЛ ПОП ЛТБУОЕЕФ, ЛБЛ ПОП ЙУЛТЙФУС Ч ЮБЫЕ, ЛБЛ ПОП ХИБЦЙЧБЕФУС ТПЧОП: |
| Spanish | No mires el vino cuando rojea, cuando resplandece su color en la copa, cuando entra suavemente. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "aright": ultraright. (additional references) | |
Words containing "aright": ultrarightist, ultrarightists. (additional references) | |
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"Aright" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aarghh, Airlight, airt, alrighty, Ardinghi, argh, Arghh, arghhh, arig, arighi, Arigho, a'right, arit, arite, arith, arithm, arrgghh, arrighi, Arrrgh, awight, Marghita, oright, raargh, Rabigh, sright. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-r-t" | |
-1 letter: airth, garth, girth, grith, right, tragi. | |
-2 letters: airt, gait, ghat, girt, grat, grit, hair, hart, ragi, rath, tahr, thir, trig. | |
-3 letters: air, ait, art, gar, gat, ghi, git, hag, hat, hit, rag, rah, rat, ria, rig, tag, tar. | |
-4 letters: ag, ah, ai, ar, at, ha, hi, it, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-r-t" | |
+1 letter: alright. | |
+2 letters: affright, airthing, airtight, charting, earthing, farthing, graphite, hearting, heritage, ingather, litharge, nightjar, straight, thirlage, thrawing, trashing, trigraph, wrathing. | |
+3 letters: affrights, algorithm, authoring, breathing, earthling, farthings, fathering, gathering, gearshift, ghastlier, gigahertz, graphites, graphitic, haltering, hamstring, haughtier, heritages, hermitage, histogram, hydrating, ingathers, lathering, lethargic, litharges, logarithm, naughtier, nightjars, nightmare, nightwear, reheating, rightward, starching, starlight, straights, thirlages, thralling, thrashing, threading, threaping, threating, throating, thwarting, trachling, trigraphs, ultrahigh, wreathing. | |
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