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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



... "Right away?" shouted Dick so lustily that Mrs. Henderson popped her head in the door. "Oh! beg your pardon," she said; "I thought ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney

... Atonement. It came to him like a great light in his darkness; he says he shall never forget the sudden conviction that the man who wrote that article understood every one of his difficulties, and would be able to clear them right away. The next Sunday he went to hear my father lecture. I believe it would make the veriest flint cry to hear his account of it, to see the look of reverent love that comes over his face when he says, 'And there I found Mr. Raeburn ready to answer all my difficulties, ...
— We Two • Edna Lyall

... girl a sort of Midas touch,' Phil said last night; 'makes her able to gild even a garret and to turn any old place into a home,' He was so charmed with everything about the flat that he said he wanted to move into one right away, and make biscuits himself on a glass-topped table, and do stunts with the fireless cooker like Joyce. He has had a surfeit of ...
— The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware • Annie Fellows Johnston

... making me believe that I am a great somebody. Brethren in the ministry, how is it with you? I see from the nods you give, that you have had similar experiences. At such times Herod's awful doom flashes over me—how that in the midst of a beautiful oration he fell dead, and right away was alive with worms consuming his body, and all because he gave not God the glory. This generally gets me rid of him on such occasions. At other times he comes with promises of worldly honors, saying to me that if I will enter the arena of politics I may count it as ...
— Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary - Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk • John Kline

... 'ad no 'eart for men or 'orses. An' you tork ababt bein' reel reg'mental, Mac! . . . 'e wos a reg'mental old soor if yer like! . . . Fit to drop we wos—wot wos left o' us, an' th' bloody sun goin' down an' all. But no! 'e give us no rest—burial fatigue right away. Free big trenches we buried aour pore fellers in—I can see 'em now. ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall


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