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Right away   /raɪt əwˈeɪ/   Listen
adverb
Right  adv.  
1.
In a right manner.
2.
In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide. "Unto Dian's temple goeth she right." "Let thine eyes look right on." "Right across its track there lay, Down in the water, a long reef of gold."
3.
Exactly; just. (Obs. or Colloq.) "Came he right now to sing a raven's note?"
4.
According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.
5.
According to any rule of art; correctly. "You with strict discipline instructed right."
6.
According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right. "Right at mine own cost." "Right as it were a steed of Lumbardye." "His wounds so smarted that he slept right naught."
7.
In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant. "He was not right fat". "For which I should be right sorry." "(I) return those duties back as are right fit." Note: In this sense now chiefly prefixed to titles; as, right honorable; right reverend.
Right honorable, a title given in England to peers and peeresses, to the eldest sons and all daughters of such peers as have rank above viscounts, and to all privy councilors; also, to certain civic officers, as the lord mayor of London, of York, and of Dublin. Note: Right is used in composition with other adverbs, as upright, downright, forthright, etc.
Right along, without cessation; continuously; as, to work right along for several hours. (Colloq. U.S.)
Right away, or Right off, at once; straightway; without delay. (Colloq. U.S.) "We will... shut ourselves up in the office and do the work right off."






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"Right away" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Faerie Queen will stretch out her dearest, sweetest hands to me and lead me, poor mortal, right away into the wide world, into some delightful country where there's plenty of love and no politics. I want love so much, Mildred; I've never had it, and no one has ever guessed how much I wanted it except you, ...
— The Invader - A Novel • Margaret L. Woods

... expressed the cynical opinion that the hot sun was affecting his brain. "I'm on a loose end," he communed. "Next time I waft myself to Europe on a steamer I'll bring my mother. It would be a bully fine notion to cable for her right away. I want someone to take care of me. It looks as if I had a cinch on running this hotel gratis. What in thunder will ...
— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy

... so much, little girl, that I want your happiness above everything in this world. Supposing—I clear out?" he said—"clear right away, go to Africa, or somewhere ...
— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper

... that I had been six hours in the Gorge, I was gone right away from the Country of the Seas, and did be as that I was back into some place that was like to the dreadness of the Night Land. For there were in this place and in that place of the Gorge, red fire-holes, even as in the Night Land. Yet not many until that I was come a ...
— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson

... went to Mr. Tree's, and he's a nice, big grocer man, with everything in his shop, and he patted me on the head and gave me a chocolate candy, which Aunty Edith said I might eat, if I ate it slowly. He said he would bring our trunks and bags up right away. Aunty Edith said, "Now I've got to order oil from Tryer and coal from Quick and some thread from Miss Macfarland's notion store," and I said, "Why don't the servants do all that, Aunty Edith?" She laughed and said, ...
— W. A. G.'s Tale • Margaret Turnbull


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