Right as a modifier also means ‘all the way’, ‘completely’:
Cut the grass right down. It’ll grow again in a few days.
We drove right up to the very north of Scotland.
He must be a right idiot. You mean he didn’t back all the files up?
Right also occurs adverbially in certain fixed expressions, where
rightly might be
more normally expected. Here right cannot occur before the verb:
It serves you right.
(you deserve that punishment)
We guessed right. They’re closing the shop next week.
Right is particularly common in spoken English as a discourse marker to indicate
that a new action or sequence of thought is about to begin:
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