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gotten right

gotten right is the past participle of get right.

Meaning of get right

Verb (1)

get right (third-person singular simple present gets right, present participle getting right, simple past got right, past participle gotten right or got right)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To do (something) in the appropriate manner; to make (something) correct by coming up with the correct answer or solution.
    • After several unsuccessful attempts to repair the clock, he got it right on the fourth try.

Verb (2)

get right (third-person singular simple present gets right, present participle getting right, simple past got right, past participle gotten right or got right)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive, often) To become rectified: to straighten oneself out; to straighten out one's life or practices (with respect to some comparator or standard).
    • get right with God

Questions about gotten right

What is gotten right the past participle of?
Gotten right is the past participle of get right.

Words near gotten right in the dictionary

  1. gotten physical
  2. gotten ready
  3. gotten real
  4. gotten religion
  5. gotten rid of
  6. gotten right
  7. gotten right down to cases
  8. gotten right into it
  9. gotten round
  10. gotten round to
  11. gotten sick

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gotten right (page history and authors); get right (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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