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What Does the Term Rightfully So Mean?
What Does the Term Rightfully So Mean?
Chloe Bennett••6 min read
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrange1 /reɪndʒ/ ●●● S1 W1 AWL noun 1 variety of things/people [countable usually singular] a number of people or things that are all different, but are all of the same general typerange of a range of services The drug is effective against a range of bacteria.
and rightly sospoken used to say that a decision or action you have just described is fair and morally right, in your opinion A lot of people round here were furious, and rightly so.
Is it rightly so or rightfully so?
Yes, you are. The distinctions that dictionaries draw between the two words are at best blurry and confusing, but in good usage rightly is the opposite of wrongly, and rightfully means much the same as by rights. In saying rightfully, that announcer used the wrong word.
What's the difference between rightly and rightfully?
As adverbs the difference between rightly and rightfully
is that rightly is aright, in a right manner, correctly, justifiably while rightfully is in accordance with what is right or just; fairly.
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