RIGHT ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does right on mean? 

• RIGHT ON (adverb)
  The adverb RIGHT ON has 1 sense:

1. an interjection expressing agreement

  Familiarity information: RIGHT ON used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIGHT ON (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An interjection expressing agreement

Synonyms:

right; right on

 Context examples 

That carries us right on to the other block.

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

This particular star is only 7.8 percent the mass of our sun, right on the border between being a star and not.

('Iceball' Planet Discovered Through Microlensing, NASA)

I daresay you can manage all right on the sofa in front of the fire.

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

You are intuitive and right on target with that method.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you go up there, pointing with his whip towards the heights, and keep right on till you come to some houses facing the sea, I think you'll hear of her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Oh, I mean the real interpretative biology, from the ground up, from the laboratory and the test-tube and the vitalized inorganic right on up to the widest aesthetic and sociological generalizations.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was just after the sun's futile effort to appear, that Bill slipped the rifle from under the sled-lashings and said: You keep right on, Henry, I'm goin' to see what I can see.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

After that there was no sign, but the path ran right on into Ragged Shaw, the wood which backed on to the school.

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

“I am going right on.”

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

I knew that he would be true to me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my confidence.

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