rightly

/ˈrʌɪtli/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈrʌɪtli/

rightly

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final y vowel sound

rig - htly -> rightly

Myanmar meaning

(adv) တရားသဖြင့်

Full entry

right¹ /raÇt/ adj

၁။ မှန်ကန်[သော]။ တရား[သော]။ လမ်းကျ[သော]။ ကောင်း[သော]။ Is it ever right to kill? ❍ You were quite right to refuse/in refusing his offer. ❍ It seems only right to warn you of the risk.
၂။ မှန်သော။ အတိအကျ။ Actually, that's not quite right. ❍ Did you get the answer right? ❍ Have you got the right money (ie exact amount) for the bus fare? ❍ What's the right time? ❍ ‘Mr Stewart, isn't it?’ ‘Yes, that's right. ’
၃။ မှန် [သော]။ They were right about her being lazy. ❍ You're right to be cautious. ❍ Am I right in thinking we've met before?
၄။ ~ (for sth/sb) သင့်သော။ တော်သော။ မှန်သော။ ပိုင်သော။ He's the right man for the job. ❍ That coat's just right for you. ❍ Is this the right way to the zoo? ❍ She has all the right contacts (ie knows the people in a position to help her career, etc).
၅။ (also all right ) နေကောင်းသော။ အဆင်ပြေသော။ ‘Do you feel all right?’ ‘No, I don't feel (quite) right today. ’ ❍ Things aren't right between her parents.
၆။ (အဝတ်အထည်၏) အလှ(ဘက်)။ Place the pattern pieces on the right side of the material.
၇။ (Brit infml ) (esp in derogatory phrases) တကယ့်။ ကောင်းကောင်းကြီး။ You made a right mess of that! ❍ She's in a right (old) temper! Compare WRONG
adv
၁။ တည့်တည့်မတ်မတ်။ တန်းတန်း။ တည့်တည့်။ sitting right beside you ❍ The wind was right in our faces.
၂။ အဆုံးအထိ။ အဆုံးတိုင်။ လုံးလုံး။ a fence right around the garden ❍ Go right to the end of the road. ❍ I fell right to the bottom of the stairs. ❍ The pear was rotten right through. ❍ The handle came right off in my hand.
၃။ မှန်မှန်ကန်ကန်။ Have I guessed right or wrong?
၄။ အဆင်ပြေပြေ။ ကျေနပ်ဖွယ်ရာ။ Nothing seems to be going right for me today.
၅။ ချက်ချင်း။ I must answer that phone, but I'll be right back.
n
၁။ [U] အမှန်။ know the difference between right and wrong ❍ You did right to tell me the truth.
၂။ [U, C] ~ (to sth/to do sth) လုပ်ပိုင်ခွင့်။ အခွင့်။ အခွင့်အရေး။ What right have you/What gives you the right to do that? ❍ You have no right to stop me from going in there. ❍ exercise one's legal rights ❍ have no rights as a US citizen ❍ animal rights campaigners ❍ the right to remain silent ❍ Everyone has a right to a fair trial. ❍ Do the police have the right of arrest in this situation? ❍ He's quite within his rights to demand an enquiry. ❍ I know my rights. See also CIVIL RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS
၃။ rights [pl] ပိုင်ခွင့်။ buy/own the movie/translation/foreign rights (of a book) (ie the authority to make a film of it, translate it, sell it abroad, etc) ❍ all rights reserved (ie protected or kept for the owners of the book, film. etc). See also COPYRIGHT
v
၁။ ပြန်တည့်မတ်သည်။ ပြန်မတ်သည်။ ပြန်တည့်သည်။ I righted some chairs and we sat down amongst the debris. ❍ The horse stumbled, then miraculously righted itself.
၂။ လမ်းမှန်ပြန်ရောက်စေသည်။ အမှားပြင်သည်။ right a wrong ❍ The fault will probably right itself if you give it time.
❏ be in the right [IDM ] တရားနည်းလမ်းကျသည်။
❏ by right of sth [IDM ] (infml ) အကြောင်းပြု၍။ The Normans ruled England by right of conquest.
❏ by rights [IDM ] တရားသဖြင့်ဆိုလျှင်။
By rights, half the reward should be mine.
❏ do right by sb [IDM ] မျှတစွာဆက်ဆံသည်။
❏ get sth right /straight [IDM ] နားလည်စေလိုသည်။ နားလည်ထားစမ်းပါ။ Let's get this right once and for all. ❍ Let's get one thing straight—I give the orders round here, OK?
❏ in one's own right [IDM ] ကိုယ်တိုင်က။ Her husband's a poet, and she's also an author in her own right.
❏ (not) in one's right mind [IDM ] မူ (မ)မှန်။
❏ not (quite) right in the head [IDM ] (infml ) ကျပ်မပြည့်။
❏ (as) of right/by right [IDM ] (fml ) ရပိုင်ခွင့်အနေဖြင့်။ The property belongs to her as of right.
❏ put/set sb/sth right [IDM ] (အချိန်)တိုက်သည်။ (မှားနေသည်ကို၊ ချွတ်ချော်နေသည်ကို) ပြင်ပေးသည်။ put one's watch right (ie to the correct time) ❍ I want to set/put you right on one or two matters.
❏ put/set sb/sth to rights [IDM ] နေသားတကျ စီစဉ်သည်။ It took me ages to put things to rights after the workmen had finished.
❏ right (you are)! (Brit also right-oh! ) [IDM ] (infml ) ဟုတ်ပ (သို့) ဟုတ်ကဲ့။
❏ right angle n ထောင့်မှန်။ Place the table at right angles/at a right angle to the wall. ❍ ANGLE, TRIANGLE
❏ right-angled adj ထောင့်မှန်။ a right-angled triangle/corner.
❏ (as) right as rain [IDM ] (infml ) အကောင်းပကတိ။
❏ right/straight away/off [IDM ] ချက်ချင်း။ မဆိုင်းမတွ။ I want it typed right away, please. ❍ I told her right/straight off what I thought of her.
❏ Right Honourable adj (Brit ) (EARL မှူးမတ်အဆင့် ရှိသူနှင့် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့ဝင် ဝန်ကြီးများနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ သုံးသော အာလုပ်ပုဒ်)။ my Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for the Environment. Compare HONOURABLE ၂
❏ rightly adv
၁။ တရားသဖြင့်။ မှန်မှန်ကန်ကန်။ ကောင်းကောင်း မွန်မွန်။ act rightly.
၂။ ထိုက်သင့် အားလျော်စွာ။ တရားနည်းလမ်း ကျစွာ။ သဘာဝကျစွာ။ She's been sacked, and rightly so. ❍ Quite rightly, the press has given extensive coverage to the debate. ❍ He was rightly furious at the decision.
၃။ မှန်မှန်ကန်ကန်။ အမှန်အတိုင်း။ ကောင်းကောင်း။ If I remember rightly… ❍ As you rightly point out, we can't afford a new car.
❏ right-minded adj တော်မှန်သော။ တရားမျှတသော။ ဖြောင့်မတ်သော။ All right-minded people will surely be shocked by this outrage.
❏ rightness n [U] တရားမျှတခြင်း။ မှန်ကန်ခြင်း။ the rightness (ie justice) of their cause ❍ the rightness of his decision.
❏ right now [IDM ] အခု။ ချက်ချင်း။
❏ right of abode n [U] တရားဝင်နေထိုင်ပိုင်ခွင့်။
❏ right of way n (pl rights of way )
၁။ [C] (က) ဖြတ်သန်းသွားလာခွင့်။ No public right of way. (ခ) ဖြတ်လမ်း။ Is there a right of way across these fields?
၂။ [U] (လမ်းပေါ်တွင်) ဦးစားပေး။ I have the right of way/It's my right of way at this junction.
❏ Right Reverend adj (အင်္ဂလန် ခရစ်ယာန်အသင်းတော် ဂိုဏ်းအုပ်ဘုန်းတော်ကြီးများနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ သုံးသော အာလုပ်ပုဒ်)။ the Right Reverend Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford.
❏ the rights and wrongs of sth [IDM ] ဖြစ်ရပ် အမှန်။
❏ rights issue n (commerce ) အစုရှယ်ယာသစ် ထပ်ခေါ်သည့် အခါ ရှိရင်းစွဲအစုရှင်များအတွက် လျှော့ဈေးဖြင့် ရောင်းပေးသော အစုရှယ်ယာများ။
❏ see sb right (US also do sb right ) [IDM ] လိုလေသေး မရှိစေရ။ You needn't worry about running out of money—I'll see you right.
❏ too right! [IDM ] (infml ) သိပ်ဟုတ်။

right² /raÇt/ adj

ညာ။ လက်ယာဘက်။
my right eye ❍ In Britain we drive on the left side of the road, not the right side. Compare LEFT²adj
adv ညာသို့။ He looked neither right nor left. ❍ Turn right at the end of the street.
n
၁။ (က) [U] ညာ။ လက်ယာ။ ယာ။ the first turning to/on the right. (ခ) [sing] ညာ (ချိုး စသည်)။ take the first right and then second left.
၂။ the Right [Gp] (politics ) လက်ယာ (အုပ်စု)။ The Right in British politics is represented by the Conservative Party. Compare LEFT² n
❏ give one's right arm for sth/to do sth [IDM ] (infml ) တကယ့်ကို သိပ်(ရောက်၊ လိုက်၊ ဖြစ် စသည်) ချင်လိုက် တာ။ I'd have given my right arm to be there with them.
❏ right and left [IDM ] နေရာတကာ။ She owes money right and left.
❏ right bank n [sing] (မြစ်စီးဆင်းသည့်အတိုင်း) ညာဘက် ကမ်း။
❏ right-hand adj
၁။ ညာလက်အတွက်။ a right-hand glove.
၂။ ညာဘက်။ make a right-hand turn ❍ the top right-hand corner. Compare LEFT-HAND
❏ right-hand drive adj [sing] လက်ယာမောင်း၊ ညာမောင်း (ယာဉ်)။ Compare LEFT-HAND DRIVE
❏ right-handed adj (က) ညာသန်။
(ခ) ညာသန် သုံး (လက်နက်ကိရိယာ) (သို့) လက်ယာရစ်။
adv ညာဘက်လက်နှင့် (ကစားသည်)။ play tennis right-handed.
❏ right-hander n (က) ညာသန်။
(ခ) ညာလက်ဖြင့် ရိုက်ချက် (သို့) ထိုးချက်။ Compare LEFT-HANDER
❏ right-hand man n [sing] ညာလက်ရုံး။
He was the governor's right-hand man.
❏ rightist n , adj လက်ယာ (ဝါဒီ)။
❏ right-of-centre adj လက်ယာဆန်ဆန်။
a right-of-centre party/candidate.
❏ right turn n ညာချိုး။ ညာကွေ့။
❏ right wing n
၁။ [Gp] (politics ) လက်ယာ ယိမ်းသည့် အပိုင်း။ She's on the right wing of the Labour Party.
၂။ [C, U] (ဘောလုံးစသည်တွင်) ညာတောင်ပံ။ playing (on the) right wing. Compare LEFT WING
❏ right-wing adj လက်ယာဆန်သော။ right-wing opinions ❍ This newspaper's views are very right-wing.
❏ right-winger n
၁။ လက်ယာဝါဒီ။ He was barracked by Tory right-wingers.
၂။ ညာတောင်ပံ။ Compare WING ၆, WINGER

More examples

Their office is right in the middle of town.
The keys were right here a minute ago.
‘Am I late?’ ‘No, you’re right on time.’
[right behind/in front of] : Don’t worry – I’m right behind you.
I knew right from the start we were going to have problems.
[right after/before] : He arrived right after me.
[right up/down] : The water came right up to our knees.
[right through] : My foot went right through the floorboards.
[right into/out of] : The car swerved and went right into a wall.
It’d gone right out of my mind until just now.
Turn right at the corner.
You did it right the first time.
[go right] : Everything went just right and the party was a big success.
[do right (to do something)] : ‘You did right to call me, ’ he said.

Synonyms

correct, true, accurate, exact, precise, absolute, absolutely, acceptable, acceptably, accurately, adequate, adequately, adjust, admissible, advantage, advantageous, all right, all the way, all there, altogether, amen, amend, amply, appanage, appropriate, appropriately, aptly, as it should be, at once, authentic, authority, away, aye, balance, balanced, bang, becoming, becomingly, befitting, befittingly, beneficially, benefit, best, birthright, bona fide, business, circumspect, claim, clean up, clear, clockwise, comely, comeuppance, comme il faut, common, compensate for, complete, completely, compos mentis, condign, conscientious, conscientiously, conservative politically, convenient, correctly, correctness, dead on, dead-on, debug, decent, decently, decorous, desert, deserved, deserving, desirable, dexter, dextral, dial back, die-hard, direct, directly, discerning, discreet, dispassionately, do justice, doctor, done, due, emancipation, emend, enfranchisement, enlightened, entirely, entitlement, equitable, equitably, equity, ethical, ethically, evenly, exactly, exceedingly, exemption, extremely, factual, factually, fair, fairly, fairness, faithful, far-sighted, favor, favorable, favorably, felicitous, fiddle with, fine, first off, fit, fitting, fittingly, fix, fix up, for the better, forthwith, fortunately, franchise, free of error, freedom, fully, genuine, genuinely, go straight, good, goodness, hale, happy, healthy, highly, ho hum, honest, honestly, honesty, honor, honorable, honorably, ideal, immaculate, immediately, immunity, impartially, in good health, in shape, in the pink, independence, indubitable, inerrant, infallible, instanter

Antonyms