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rightward /ˈrʌɪtwəd /adverb (also rightwards)1Towards the right: the little stream curves rightward...- Jupiter creeps rightward by a bit less than a finger's width each day, while Venus climbs a little higher, as if rising to meet it.
- Chris lurches rightward toward Peggy.
- In the first image, a small red point appears at the left border and moves rightward, gradually disappearing.
2Towards support of conservative views and capitalist principles: the electorate is moving rightward panic set in and the party lurched rightwards...- When any centre-left party drifted rightward, it always comforted itself that its core supporters would stay loyal because they have nowhere else to go.
- The country's national political scene has edged rightward.
- The party just kept moving the center ever rightward.
adjective1Going towards or situated on the right: the rock face is climbed via a rightward curving crack...- Such behavior is responsible for the sequential rightward shift of the curves and the hysteresis.
- Lactic acidosis may facilitate the supply of oxygen to working skeletal muscle by causing a rightward shift of the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve.
- Furthermore, amiloride alone or in the presence of Ltip peptide produced a significant rightward shift of the expiratory P-V curve, most probably secondary to an important interstitial edema produced by amiloride.
2Tending to support conservative views and capitalist principles: a sharp rightward shift in national politics...- They are moving the Democratic party in a rightward direction.
- The only way for Democrats to reverse the slow rightward drift in constitutional law is by winning elections.
- When the rhetoric is that of the rightward fringe of the Republican Party circa 1952, I worry a lot.
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