rightward
/ˈɹaɪtwɚd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
To or from the right.
adv
To or from the right.
Example Sentences
- "This is seen as abnormal rapid leftward motion of the septum during preejection followed by rightward (paradoxical) motion."
- "Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”"
- "Most polls give the left, divided between Socialists, ecologists and far-left parties, less than 30 percent of the vote in a France drifting rightward. The once-proud “gauche” is in tatters."
Etymology
Etymology tree English right Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English rightward From right + -ward.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹaɪtwɚd/
- British English: /ˈɹaɪtwəd/
Inflected Forms
more rightward (comparative)
most rightward (superlative)