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right enough

right enough adverb: certainly, indeed.

Adverb

right enough (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) Certainly, indeed.
    • She saw me right enough (= so she can't pretend she did not)
    • This is now much reviled as a symbol of Western meddling in the Middle East and, right enough, it appears to have been yet another of those fantasies that arose out of the First World War.2016, Norman Stone, “A Line in the Sand”, in Literary Review, section 449

Questions about right enough

What does right enough mean?
Right enough means certainly, indeed.
What part of speech is right enough?
Right enough is an adverb.

Words near right enough in the dictionary

  1. right crosses
  2. right eigenvalue
  3. right eigenvalues
  4. right eigenvector
  5. right eigenvectors
  6. right enough
  7. right exact
  8. right face
  9. right faces
  10. right field
  11. right fielder

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