right
Turn right right now.
The sentence instructs to turn to the right side immediately — first 'right' is direction, second is timing.
Meanings (pronounced /raɪt/)
toward or on the right side
- Turn right at the next corner.
- Look right before crossing.
immediately; without delay
- Come here right now.
- I'll be right back.
Word origin
From Old English riht ('correct, just, straight'), from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- ('to straighten, direct'). The same root produces Latin rectus ('straight'), regere ('to rule'), and the Sanskrit ṛta- ('cosmic order'). 'Right' branched into many senses in English — the directional sense (vs. left), the moral sense (correct, just), the legal sense (a right or entitlement), and the temporal sense (immediately).
Fun fact
'Right' has more meanings than almost any other short English word — direction (vs. left), correctness (the right answer), morality (do the right thing), legality (human rights), timing (right now), confirmation (right!), and emphasis (right then and there). Linguists count over a dozen distinct senses, all descending from the same Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'straight, direct.'