ARIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aright mean? 

• ARIGHT (adverb)
  The adverb ARIGHT has 1 sense:

1. in an accurate manner

  Familiarity information: ARIGHT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARIGHT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an accurate manner

Synonyms:

aright; correctly; right

Context example:

he guessed right

 Context examples 

“It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan,” I remarked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I will hover near and direct the steel aright.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

God grant that we may be guided aright, and that He will deign to watch over my husband and those dear to us both, and who are in such deadly peril.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“You mean—?” she asked, and I knew she had guessed aright.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Well, gentlemen, have I read you the riddle aright, or is there any point which you would query?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The passengers used to laugh when Boy Jim shouted at them, but if they could have read his big, half-set limbs and his loose shoulders aright, they would have looked a little harder at him, perhaps, and given him back his cheer.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Nay, Sir Oliver, you had best bide with us, and still show your ensign,” Sir Nigel answered; “for, if I understand the matter aright, we have but turned from one danger to the other.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was already firmly convinced, Watson, that there were not three separate mysteries here, but one only, and that if I could read the Musgrave Ritual aright I should hold in my hand the clue which would lead me to the truth concerning both the butler Brunton and the maid Howells.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I could not reason so to a man in love, and was willing to trust to there being no harm in her, to her having that sort of disposition, which, in good hands, like his, might be easily led aright and turn out very well.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was some relief, however, that they were to return to the rooms in common use, by passing through a few of less importance, looking into the court, which, with occasional passages, not wholly unintricate, connected the different sides; and she was further soothed in her progress by being told that she was treading what had once been a cloister, having traces of cells pointed out, and observing several doors that were neither opened nor explained to her—by finding herself successively in a billiard-room, and in the general's private apartment, without comprehending their connection, or being able to turn aright when she left them; and lastly, by passing through a dark little room, owning Henry's authority, and strewed with his litter of books, guns, and greatcoats.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)