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Synonyms
competent, condign, deserved, due, fair, just, justified, merited, right, warranted
Antonyms
undeserved, undue, unfair, unjust, unjustified, unmerited, unwarranted
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Meanwhile in 2004, the town of Hildburghausen, looking for its rightful place in history, dedicated a monument to the decades-long long search for the track-maker. — Hans-dieter Sues, Smithsonian, "The Long, Strange Tale of the Hand Beast Footprints," 11 Sep. 2019 Along the way, artists like Marshall take their rightful place in an arc from which they were deliberately excluded. — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, "On the walls at Harvard museums, calling out art’s racist, sexist history," 31 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'rightful.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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