right on

adj, intj — 4 senses

right on

adjalso spelled right-on

US /ˌɹaɪt ˈɑn/

1

Correct and apropos; perfectly true.

  • That's just so right on. It's so true.2010, Anne Miller, Permission to Speak Freely, →ISBN:
  • Joseph was right on. New York was what Jaylene wanted.2011, R. D. Smiley, Cotman: The Jaylene Olivia Josalene Cotman Story, →ISBN, page 244:
2 more examples
  • Every time James asked his brother for an opinion, it was right on.2011, James Shinn, Faith and Loving On the Way To Heaven: Self-Help for Sinners and Saints!, →ISBN:
  • I verified that information with Jack who said she was right on.2012, Andrew Page, Memoirs of a Scheduler, →ISBN, page A-136:
2

Alternative Alternative form of right-on.

  • The folks at VAWA were kickass, their politics were completely right on and it's total West Wing. People are there trying to affect change in this certain context. And it was so heartening in this way seeing people being so right on. It was also kind of scary to see people being so right on and this was the best completely right on people could do in the system at this point (SFA).2008, From Moderate Chastisement to Mandatory Arrest, →ISBN:
  • The whole underground scene where we come from is just so right on and maybe that's the way we justify why we've pursued this so far on this level is to maybe open doors, some doors that have been opened for us, by bands who've made dents, who've preceded us.2016, Nick Soulsby, Cobain on Cobain: Interviews and Encounters, →ISBN:

right on

intj
1

US, Dated, Idiomatic An expression of enthusiasm or encouragement.

  • I knew you could do it. Right on!
  • Right on to Jean Segaloff and her Speaking Out column, "The Myth of the 'Feminist Male!" A man who calls himself a "feminist" is akin to a white civil rights worker who calls him or herself a "black activist."1981 August 15, Cliff Flanders, “Anti-Masculinists”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 4:
Related terms
say that, that's what I'm talking about

right-on

adj
1

UK, Derogatory, Often Possessing political and social views that are considered to be fashionable and left-wing.

  • "They [women who cohabitate] do not support the girls they live with and yet the girls do all the things a wife does for her husband, the cooking, the laundry, the housework, and sometimes she even supports him while he finishes school!" (To which one right-on middle-aged woman in the audience responded, "So we did the same thing only we had a piece of paper which made it legal!"1974 April 13, Barbara Piccirilii, “Landerslander”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
  • The most telling thing about them is that both portray what they see as right-wing as 'the other', and so as less revolutionary and less right-on.2002, Liz Stanley, Sue Wise, Breaking Out Again: Feminist Ontology and Epistemology, →ISBN, page 51:
2 more examples
  • Sid was greying, and small and very right-on when it came to the left. To Mr Grumble, Sid looked like another BTC, graduate tree-hugger, the type that hitchhiked around Tajikistan, or worked in the local library, or charity shop; the sort who would bother him in the street to complete some marketing survey.2014, Andrew-Henry Bowie, The Death of Mr. Grumble, →ISBN:
  • Ukip said that it was saddened that "synthetic outrage" from the "right-on media" had forced Read to withdraw the single and announced that the full profits would be donated to the Red Cross Ebola Outreach programme.2014 October 23, Laura Pitel, “Charity refuses money from Ukip calypso song”, in The Times, number 71335, page 2:
Synonyms
politically correct, PC, woke
Antonyms
politically incorrect
Derived terms
right-onness

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