all right

[ awl rahyt, awl-rahyt ]
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adverb
  1. yes; very well; OK: All right, I'll go with you.

  2. (used as an interrogative or interrogative tag) OK?; do you agree?: We'll deal with this problem tomorrow, all right?

  1. satisfactorily; acceptably: His work is coming along all right.

  2. without fail; certainly: You'll hear about this, all right!

adjective
  1. safe; sound: Are you all right?

  2. satisfactory; acceptable: His performance was all right, but I've seen better.

  1. Informal. reliable; good: That fellow is all right.

Idioms about all right

  1. (a) bit of all right, British. quite satisfactory (used as an understatement): The way he saved that child's life was a bit of all right.

Origin of all right

1
First recorded in 1100–50; originally an adverbial phrase; compare Middle English al ri(g)ht “indeed, straightway, at once,” late Old English eall riht “just (as)”

usage note For all right

See alright.

Words that may be confused with all right

Other definitions for all-right (2 of 2)

all-right
[ awl-rahyt ]

adjectiveInformal.
  1. agreeable, acceptable, or commendable: an all-right plan.

Origin of all-right

2
First recorded in 1815–25

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How to use all right in a sentence

  • He was an all-right fellow, and if there's been any rusty work done down there in the breaks, this shifty-eyed mark done it.

    The Happy Family | Bertha Muzzy Bower
  • There are hundreds of strange beliefs and spiritual systems, each claiming to be all-powerful, all-right.

    Think | Col. Wm. C. Hunter
  • All-right; I weel mak' you run de buffalo, shoot dose elk, trap de castor, an you shall shake de han' wid de grizzly bear.

    John Ermine of the Yellowstone | Frederic Remington
  • But, all the same, wherever that Sage-Brush Hen was, there was dead sure to be an all-right cyclone.

    Santa F's Partner | Thomas A. Janvier
  • I've seen 'all-right' men like you hitting the hurry trail for the boneyard before now.

    The Trail of '98 | Robert W. Service

British Dictionary definitions for all right

all right

adjective(postpositive except in slang use)
  1. adequate; satisfactory

  2. unharmed; safe

  1. all-right US slang

    • acceptable: an all-right book

    • reliable: an all-right guy

sentence substitute
  1. very well: used to express assent

adverb
  1. satisfactorily; adequately: the car goes all right

  2. without doubt: he's a bad one, all right

  • Also: alright

all right

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Other Idioms and Phrases with all right

all right

Completely correct, as in You have a perfect score—your answers are all right. (It could just as well be put as “all your answers are right.”)

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