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# rightly

adverb (rightly)

«rightly» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Rightly means correctly or truly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightly/#m1)
2. Rightly means fairly, for a good reason, as in "She was rightly proud". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightly/#m2)
3. "Rightly or wrongly" means whether it is right or wrong. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightly/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and stories, "rightly" shows the speaker agrees that a feeling or action is justified. In formal writing, "rightly so" adds approval. Phrases: "rightly so", "quite rightly", "rightly or wrongly", "if I remember rightly".

### Examples

- She was rightly proud of her gold medal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightly/#x1)
- If I remember rightly, the party starts at four. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightly/#x2)
- The goal was rightly disallowed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightly/#x3)
- He complained, and rightly so — the food was cold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightly/#x4)
- Rightly or wrongly, they decided to go out in the storm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightly/#x5)
- People were quite rightly upset when the park closed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightly/#x6)
- If you don’t guess rightly, you shall lose your head.’ [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightly/#x7)

### Note

It comes from "right" + -ly. In many sentences "right" and "rightly" differ: "answer it right" (correctly, informal) vs. "rightly praised" (with good reason). "Rightly" is not used for the direction right.

## In Jewish tradition

In everyday life and stories, "rightly" shows the speaker agrees that a feeling or action is justified. In formal writing, "rightly so" adds approval. Phrases: "rightly so", "quite rightly", "rightly or wrongly", "if I remember rightly".

### Note

It comes from "right" + -ly. In many sentences "right" and "rightly" differ: "answer it right" (correctly, informal) vs. "rightly praised" (with good reason). "Rightly" is not used for the direction right.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «rightly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«rightly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/rightly.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «rightly» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rightly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«rightly» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/rightly.html) on Mova free.