aright
/əˈɹaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "The great service which he rendered to science was that he put the right questions ; it was not that he answered them aright."
- ""Well, gentlemen, have I read you the riddle aright, or is there any point which you would query?""
- "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."
- "But, from working with those who have felt exiled and damned, excoriated and benumbed, and yet have made it back to useful and creative life again, I know there are more sure, albeit intense, ways to aright oneself."
Etymology
From Middle English ariȝt, ariht, from Old English āriht (“aright, properly”), from earlier *an riht, on riht (“rightly”), corresponding to a- + right.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈɹaɪt/
- British English: /əˈɹaɪt/