Aright Meaning
/əˈɹaɪt/Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advRightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
advTo or on the right-hand side.
Sentence Examples
Bela and I need to set things aright.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Please make sure you set the timer ____ before leaving.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
May all our plans for the festival turn out ____ in the end, my friend.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English ariȝt, ariht, from Old English āriht (“aright, properly”), from earlier *an riht, on riht (“rightly”), corresponding to a- + right.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"it is not easie we should so often settle our minds in so regular, so reformed, and so devout a seat, where indeed it ought to be, to pray aright and effectually: otherwise our praiers are not only vaine and unprofitable, but vicious."
— 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 56, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
"Hear him not; call on the names of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart. I will hover near and direct the steel aright."
— 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], “chapter 24”, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
"The great service which he rendered to science was that he put the right questions ; it was not that he answered them aright."
— 1910, James George Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, volume 1, page vii:
""Well, gentlemen, have I read you the riddle aright, or is there any point which you would query?""
— 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
"Once more away! and now
The long descent is seen,
A long, long, narrow path.
Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow,
Aleft the giddy precipice."
— 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Please make sure you set the timer ____ before leaving.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
May all our plans for the festival turn out ____ in the end, my friend.