'Rightful' definitions:
Definition of 'rightful'
From: WordNet
adjective
Legally valid; "a rightful inheritance"
adjective
Having a legally established claim; "the legitimate heir"; "the true and lawful king" [syn: true(a), lawful, rightful(a)]
Definition of 'Rightful'
From: GCIDE
- Rightful \Right"ful\, a.
- 1. Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Consonant to justice; just; as, a rightful cause. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Having the right or just claim according to established laws; being or holding by right; as, the rightful heir to a throne or an estate; a rightful king. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Belonging, held, or possessed by right, or by just claim; as, a rightful inheritance; rightful authority. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Just; lawful; true; honest; equitable; proper. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rightful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- according to Hoyle,
- actionable,
- applicable,
- appropriate,
- apt,
- authentic,
- authorized,
- balanced,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- competent,
- condign,
- constitutional,
- correct,
- de jure,
- decent,
- decorous,
- defensible,
- deserved,
- dinkum,
- due,
- equitable,
- even,
- evenhanded,
- fair,
- fair and square,
- fit,
- fitting,
- following the letter,
- genuine,
- good,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- impartial,
- inartificial,
- judicial,
- juridical,
- just,
- justiciable,
- justifiable,
- justified,
- kosher,
- lawful,
- lawmaking,
- legal,
- legislative,
- legit,
- legitimate,
- level,
- licit,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- meet,
- meet and right,
- merited,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- nice,
- normal,
- normative,
- original,
- proper,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- requisite,
- right,
- right and proper,
- righteous,
- sanctioned,
- seemly,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- square,
- statutory,
- sterling,
- suitable,
- sure-enough,
- true,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- valid,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- warrantable,
- warranted,
- within the law,
- word-for-word
Words containing 'Rightful'
- At all right,
- By right,
- By rights,
- Right,
- Right off,
- Righted,
- Rightfully,
- Rightfulness,
- Righting,
- Rightly,
- Rightness,
- To rights,
- all right,
- in her own right,
- in his own right,
- in its own right,
- just right,
- not right,
- own right,
- right on,
- At right angles,
- Bill of Rights,
- By good rights,
- Declaration of rights,
- Divine right,
- Heritable rights,
- Mineral right,
- Patent right,
- Personal rights,
- Petition of right,
- Right Center,
- Right along,
- Right and left,
- Right angle,
- Right ascension,
- Right away,
- Right bower,
- Right cone,
- Right cylinder,
- Right descension,
- Right hand,
- Right honorable,
- Right line,
- Right of drain,
- Right of drip,
- Right of nullification,
- Right of search,
- Right of support,
- Right of the tabouret,
- Right of visit,
- Right of way,
- Right prism,
- Right pyramid,
- Right sailing,
- Right sphere,
- Right whale,
- Right-about,
- State rights,
- States' rights,
- The Petition of Right,
- To dress to the right,
- To put to rights,
- To right a vessel,
- To right the helm,
- To set right,
- To set to rights,
- Writ of right,
- accordance of rights,
- by right of office,
- civil right,
- civil rights,
- conjugal right,
- exclusive right,
- hard right,
- human right,
- in her right mind,
- in his right mind,
- in one's own right,
- in their right minds,
- legal right,
- natural right,
- preemptive right,
- property right,
- put right,
- put to rights,
- radical right,
- religious right,
- right atrium,
- right bank,
- right brain,
- right field,
- right fielder,
- right hander,
- right hemisphere,
- right in rem,
- right mind,
- right minded,
- right of action,
- right of election,
- right of entry,
- right of offset,
- right of privacy,
- right perpendicular,
- right smart,
- right sort,
- right stage,
- right to an attorney,
- right to liberty,
- right to life,
- right to privacy,
- right to vote,
- right triangle,
- right ventricle,
- right wing,
- right winger,
- right-down,
- rights issue,
- rights offering,
- riparian right,
- set right,
- stage right,
- subscription right,
- the right way,
- undivided right,
- visitation right,
- voting right,
- water right,
- Divine right of kings,
- Pygmy right whale,
- Right and left coupling,
- Right and left screw,
- Right of eminent domain,
- Right shoulder arms,
- Right-angled,
- Right-hand,
- Right-handed,
- Right-handedness,
- Right-hearted,
- Right-heartedness,
- Right-lined,
- Right-minded,
- Right-mindedness,
- Right-running,
- To send to the right-about,
- To serve one right,
- To take ground to the right,
- civil rights activist,
- civil rights leader,
- civil rights movement,
- civil rights worker,
- commission on human rights,
- conjugal visitation right,
- far-right,
- right atrioventricular valve,
- right atrium of the heart,
- right coronary artery,
- right gastric artery,
- right gastric vein,
- right hand man,
- right of first publication,
- right to confront accusors,
- right to due process,
- right to the pursuit of happiness,
- right-about-face,
- right-eyed,
- right-hander,
- right-of-way,
- right-side-out,
- right-side-up,
- right-wing,
- right-winger,
- sense of right and wrong,
- special drawing rights,
- Right-hand rope,
- Right-handed screw,
- extreme right-winger,
- right of re-entry,
- right-angled triangle,
- right-hand man,
- right-handed pitcher,
- states' rights democratic party,
- right to speedy and public trial by jury,
- orthogonal orthographic rectangular right-angled