English
rightthink
Compound of right + think, modeled after wrongthink, ultimately modeled on crimethink from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- ‘to straighten’
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Proto-Germanic *rehtaz ‘right’
Proto-West Germanic *reht ‘straight’
Old English reht
Middle English reȝt
English right
Proto-Indo-European *teng- ‘to think’
Proto-Germanic *þankijaną ‘to think’
Proto-West Germanic *þankijan ‘to think’
Old English þenċan ‘to think’
Middle English thinken ‘to think’
English think
The story
Compound of right + think, modeled after wrongthink, ultimately modeled on crimethink from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Today it means
noun Synonym of goodthink.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “rightthink”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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