Rights


Synonyms for right
noun privilege

claim
license
business
power
freedom
authority
priority

benefit
interest
immunity
birthright
comeuppance
exemption
advantage

title
prerogative
due
merit
liberty
favor
appanage

preference
deserving
franchise
permission
desert
perquisite

Antonyms for rights

disadvantage
disfavor
injustice

unfairness
unjustness
wrong

corruption
immorality

Synonyms
noun justice, morality

freedom
integrity
independence
righteousness
good
truth

propriety
straight
correctness
uprightness
liberty
lawfulness

reason
virtue
goodness
equity
emancipation
rightness

properness
honor
rectitude
legality
enfranchisement

Antonyms

subordination
evil
dishonesty
impropriety
unsuitableness

wrong
dishonor
injustice
unfairness
unjustness

immorality
wickedness
corruption

Synonyms
verb fix, correct

repair
square
rectify
redress
restore
overhaul
doctor
adjust
emend
mend
recondition

scrub
vindicate
launder
reconstruct
reward
amend
straighten
patch
settle
recompense
debug

balance
fix up
pick up
go straight
clean up
compensate for
dial back
do justice
fiddle with
make up for
put in place

put right
recalibrate
set straight
set upright
shape up
sort out
straighten out
turn around

Antonyms

damage
destroy
injure
ruin
worsen

harm
punish
wrong
break
hurt

confuse
upset
move

Usage Notes

Right in the sense of “very, extremely” is either archaic or dialectal. It is most common in informal speech and writing: It’s right cold this morning. The editor knew right well where the story had originated.
Concept Thesaurus for word rights
1. Moral obligations
Synonyms – noun

right
summum jus.
propriety
give and take
Themis.
suum cuique
law

what ought to be
justice
fair play
lex talionis.
scales of justice
clear stage
honor (probity)

what should be
equity
impartiality
Astraea
evenhanded justice
fair field and no favor.
virtue

fitness
equitableness
measure for measure
Nemesis
karma
morals (duty)

Synonyms – verbs

be right
see fair play
give and take
give the devil his due

stand to reason.
do justice to
serve one right
audire alteram partem.

see justice done
recompense (reward)
put the saddle on the right horse
deserve (be entitled to)

see one righted
bold the scales even
give every one his due

Synonyms – adjectives

right
fit
evenhanded
rightful
(legal) [more]. deserved [more].

good
equal
fair.
as it should be

just
equable
legitimate
as it ought to be

reasonable
equatable
justifiable
lawful (permitted)

Synonyms – phrases
Dieu et mon droit; “in equal scale weighing delight and dole” [Hamlet]; justitia cuum cuique distribuit [Cicero]; justititiae soror incorrupta fides; justitia virtutem
Antonyms

wrong

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