alright Definition

all right
alright
adj

1. Unhurt; safe; feeling fine.

Thesaurus: uninjured, well, unhurt, safe, whole.
2. Just about adequate, satisfactory, etc.

Thesaurus: adequate, satisfactory, enough, tolerable, acceptable, passable.
3. colloq
Admirable; genuine; cool.
Example: an all-right kind of a guy
Form: all-right
4. Faultless, without error

Thesaurus: correct, exact, precise, accurate, right.

exclamation

1. Used simply as a greeting

Example: All right? How's it going?
2a. Used to signal agreement or approval;

Example: All right, you can go
Thesaurus: agreed, yes, OK, of course, surely, definitely, positively.
2b. slang
Used to signal great approval
Example: You got tickets to see Julian Cope? Awl right!
Form: awl right (sometimes)

adverb

1. Satisfactorily; properly.
2. colloq
Used to reinforce what has just been said.
Example: It's broken all right

Idiom: a bit of all right

colloq
Someone or something much approved of, especially someone good-looking or sexy
Example: Cor! He's a bit of all right!

Idiom: be all right with someone

colloq
To be agreeable to them.
Example: I'll see you at eight, if that's all right with you

Etymology: 19c.

Info:

A usage difficulty arises because all right is used at different levels of formality; in more casual use (eg in recorded conversation) it is often written as alright, influenced by words like almighty and altogether. The spelling is also influenced when all seems to be inappropriate in a particular context

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alright
adj

1. An alternative spelling of all right.

Info:

See Usage Note at all right.