Antonyms for rights
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : rahyts |
| Phonetic Transcription : raɪts |
Definition of rights
Origin :- "morally correct," Old English riht "just, good, fair; proper, fitting; straight, not bent, direct, erect," from Proto-Germanic *rekhtaz (cf. Old Frisian riucht "right," Old Saxon reht, Middle Dutch and Dutch recht, Old High German reht, German recht, Old Norse rettr, Gothic raihts), from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line," also "to rule, to lead straight, to put right" (see regal; cf. Greek orektos "stretched out, upright;" Latin rectus "straight, right;" Old Persian rasta- "straight, right," aršta- "rectitude;" Old Irish recht "law;" Welsh rhaith, Breton reiz "just, righteous, wise").
- Cf. slang straight (adj.1) "honest, morally upright," and Latin rectus "right," literally "straight," Lithuanian teisus "right, true," literally "straight." Greek dikaios "just" (in the moral and legal sense) is from dike "custom." As an emphatic, meaning "you are right," it is recorded from 1580s; use as a question meaning "am I not right?" is from 1961. The sense in right whale is "justly entitled to the name." Right stuff "best human ingredients" is from 1848, popularized by Tom Wolfe's 1979 book about the first astronauts. Right of way is attested from 1767. Right angle is from late 14c.
- noun privilege
- noun justice, morality
- verb fix, correct
- Things as trifling as the turning of a shell may restore you to your rights.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- They are the preservation of the rights of the several States and the integrity of the Union.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- Hester, more than Amy, felt her own rights, and was ready to be indignant.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Now let us ask what are a child's rights, and what are the rights of society over the child.
- Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
- But the interference must be regulated by some theory of the individual's rights.
- Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
- Why, he had promised me that I should have pioneer's rights in the realm of beauty.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- If his enthusiasm had not run counter to my rights, I might have admired it.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- But he was a good husband, and she had a loyal respect for his rights.
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- Rights we had bargained for with men, which they, not owning them, had gravely given!
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
Synonyms for rights
- adjust
- advantage
- amend
- appanage
- authority
- balance
- benefit
- birthright
- business
- claim
- clean up
- comeuppance
- compensate for
- correctness
- debug
- desert
- deserving
- dial back
- do justice
- doctor
- due
- emancipation
- emend
- enfranchisement
- equity
- exemption
- favor
- fiddle with
- fix up
- franchise
- freedom
- go straight
- good
- goodness
- honor
- immunity
- independence
- integrity
- interest
- launder
- lawfulness
- legality
- liberty
- license
- make up for
- mend
- merit
- overhaul
- patch
- permission
- perquisite
- pick up
- power
- preference
- prerogative
- priority
- properness
- propriety
- put in place
- put right
- reason
- recalibrate
- recompense
- recondition
- reconstruct
- rectify
- rectitude
- redress
- repair
- restore
- reward
- righteousness
- rightness
- scrub
- set straight
- set upright
- settle
- shape up
- sort out
- square
- straight
- straighten
- straighten out
- title
- truth
- turn around
- uprightness
- vindicate
- virtue
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