THESAURUS
rightful
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
ROGET THESAURUS
rightful
Right
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right, what ought to be, what should be, fitness, summum jus, justice, equity, equitableness, propriety, fair play, impartiality, measure for measure, give and take, lex talionis, Astraea, Nemesis, Themis, scales of justice, evenhanded justice, karma, suum cuique, clear stage, fair field and no favor, level playing field, morals, law, honor, virtue, right, good, just, reasonable, fit, equal, equable, equatable, evenhanded, fair, legitimate, justifiable,
rightful, as it should be, as it ought to be, lawful deserved, rightly, +a bon droit, au bon droit, in justice, in equity, in reason, without distinction of persons, without regard to persons, without respect to persons, upon even terms, Int, all right!, fair's fair, Dieu et mon droit, in equal scale weighing delight and dole, justitia cuum cuique distribuit, justitiae soror incorrupta fides, justitia virtutem regina, thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just.