Dictionary Entry

aright

Part of SpeechadverbPronunciation/əˈɹaɪt/Used In Literature ↓

Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.

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Common Phrases

. arightaright readaright rememberaright heardaright understandaright godaright judge

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Poetry examples for “aright”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

The sweetest thing that may be
Yet cannot praise aright
A baby.

Ah, we safely may trust to its gleaming,
And be sure it will lead us aright--
We safely may trust to a gleaming

Who made them all my children.
Did I know my boy aright,
Thinking of him as a spirit aflame,

I love thee . . . mark! . . . I love thee—in thy sight
I stand transfigured, glorified aright,
With conscience of the new rays that proceed

have dreamed aright,

To aid them in the darkest night
And guide their plundering steps aright.
Rattling away in printless tracks,

A thrill so true and yet so slight,
I hardly deemed I read aright.
As when a sleeper, ign'rant why,

I stand upon a wide and sunless plain,
Nor chart nor steel to guide my steps aright.
Whene'er, o'ercoming fear, I dare to move,

Then, if I read the page aright
Where Hope, the soothsayer, reads our lot,

Himself from still a Higher Power receives,
The Wise, and all who comprehend aright,
Will recognise that Higher in The Sage.