right-hand

ADJECTIVE

essential

Synonyms

STRONGEST

crucial fundamental imperative important indispensable main necessary needed vital

STRONG

capital cardinal chief leading prerequisite principal requisite

WEAK

constitutive foremost must-have necessitous needful required wanted

Antonyms

STRONGEST

auxiliary extra inessential minor needless nonessential optional secondary subordinate trivial unimportant unnecessary voluntary

STRONG

inferior

WEAK

accessory atypical subsidiary

ADJECTIVE

needful

Synonyms

WEAK

capital cardinal chief constitutive crucial foremost fundamental imperative indispensable leading main necessary necessitous needed prerequisite principal required requisite wanted

NOUN

right-hand man

Synonyms

WEAK

alter ego fidus Achates gal Friday man Friday right hand right-hand woman second self strong right arm

Example Sentences

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Monitoring from the rear of the group, Paul saw something was wrong, paddled to the right-hand side of the river and left the water.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Prevented from running in the last presidential election due to a defamation conviction, Sonko had designated his right-hand man, Faye, to replace him in the race.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Sitting in the front row was his girlfriend Paula Hurd, one of his sisters and Larry Cohen, the longtime CEO of Gates Ventures and his right-hand man.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Their results suggest that early hominins such as Ardipithecus and Australopithecus probably showed only mild right-hand preferences, similar to what is seen in modern great apes today.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

He was on the sofa in the den, in his usual spot on the right-hand end.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

right-hand

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