Meaning & use
Aright
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Correctly or properly; in the right way.
See it in a sentence
If I remember aright, the meeting was rescheduled for Thursday.
He tried to set the record aright after the misleading headline spread online.
A note on using this word
"Aright" is now mostly found in formal, literary, or biblical English, having largely given way to "correctly" or "rightly" in everyday speech.
Words with a similar meaning
correctlyrightly
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Words with an opposite meaning
wronglyincorrectly
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