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English
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Pronunciation
Adjective
all right (not comparable)
- Good; in acceptable, if not excellent condition.
The car is all right. It gets me there, anyway.
- In good health, unharmed.
I had a headache earlier, but now I'm all right.
1903, William Brodie, Carl Jungk, Francis Edward Stewart, The Therapeutic Gazette, page 536:The dread of most etherizers is a quiet breather who may stop breathing without his notice, and requires the almost constant presence of his ear at the patient's mouth to be sure he or she is all right.
1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:Next I called my dear friend Nellie Connally in Dallas. We had been close to Nellie and John for many years, sharing moments of sorrow and happiness alike. She reported that the surgeon had just finished operating and that John was going to be all right.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:all right.
Usage notes
The comparative form "more all right" is used, but rarely. An example would be where another speaker had used the phrase "all right" and repeating it and extending it enhanced the continuity of the conversation. I didn't feel all right earlier today, so I took a power-nap. Now I feel even more all right than I normally do.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
good
- Arabic: جَيِّد (jayyid)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 好 (zh) (hǎo), 好的 (zh) (hǎo de), 沒事/没事 (zh) (méishì)
- Danish: i orden
- Dutch: in orde (nl), prima (nl)
- Finnish: kunnossa (fi), kunnossa oleva
- French: bien (fr), d’accord (fr), ok (fr)
- Galician: ben (gl)
- German: in Ordnung, gut (de)
- Greek: μια χαρά (mia chará), εντάξει (el) (entáxei)
- Hindi: ठीक (hi) (ṭhīk), अच्छा (hi) (acchā)
- Hungarian: jó (hu), jól (hu), rendben (hu)
- Irish: ceart go leor, go maith
- Italian: bene (it)
- Japanese: 大丈夫な (ja) (だいじょうぶな, daijōbu na)
- Khmer: សមគួរ (sɑɑ mɔɔ kuə)
- Korean: 괜찮다 (ko) (gwaenchanta)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: باش (ckb) (baş), چاک (çak)
- Marathi: ठीक (ṭhīk); बरा (barā), बरी (barī), बरे (bare), बर्या (baryā)
- Norwegian: ålreit (no)
- Polish: dobry (pl) m
- Portuguese: razoável (pt)
- Russian: хоро́ший (ru) (xoróšij)
- Scots: awricht
- Spanish: bien (es)
- Swedish: okej (sv), duglig (sv), skaplig (sv)
- Urdu: ٹھیک (ur) (ṭhīk), اچّھا (acchā)
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in good health
- Dutch: in een goede gezondheid
- Finnish: terve (fi), kunnossa (fi)
- French: bien (fr) (to be all right, bien aller), en forme (fr); are you all right?, ça va ?
- Galician: ben (gl)
- German: gesund (de), unversehrt (de)
- Hungarian: jó (hu)
- Icelandic: ágætur (is)
- Italian: bene (it)
- Japanese: 大丈夫な (ja) (だいじょうぶな, daijōbu na)
- Polish: w porządku (pl), zdrowy (pl)
- Portuguese: bom (pt) m, bem (pt), legal (pt)
- Russian: в поря́дке (ru) (v porjádke), здоро́вый (ru) (zdoróvyj)
- Swedish: okej (sv), oskadd (sv)
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Adverb
all right (not comparable)
- Fairly well.
- That went all right, I suppose.
- (informal) Most certainly; for sure.
- You taught them a lesson all right! They won't be back.
Translations
fairly well
- Arabic: حَسَنًا (ar) (ḥasanan)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 好 (zh) (hǎo)
- Dutch: vrij goed, wel degelijk
- Finnish: hyvin (fi), ihan hyvin, mukavasti (fi)
- French: bien (fr)
- German: in Ordnung, gut (de)
- Hindi: अच्छे (acche), ठीक से (hi) (ṭhīk se)
- Japanese: 大丈夫 (ja) (だいじょうぶ, daijōbu), よく (ja) (yoku), しゃんと (shanto), ちゃんと (ja) (chanto)
- Macedonian: во ред (vo red), добро (dobro)
- Portuguese: bem (pt)
- Romanian: bine (ro), în ordine, O.K.
- Russian: хорошо́ (ru) (xorošó), ничего́ (ru) (ničevó), непло́хо (ru) (neplóxo)
- Swedish: väl (sv), okej (sv), skapligt (sv)
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Interjection
all right
- Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent.
All right, let's go then.
1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:Presently there came a loud ring, then a decided voice, asking for 'Mr. Laurie', and a surprised-looking servant came running up to announce a young lady. "All right, show her up, it's Miss Jo," said Laurie, going to the door of his little parlor to meet Jo, who appeared, looking rosy and quite at her ease, with a covered dish in one hand and Beth's three kittens in the other.
- Used to indicate support, favor or encouragement.
All right! They scored!
- Used to fill space or pauses.
All right, so what you suggest we do next?
- Used as a general lead-in or beginning.
All right, let's get started.
- Used to express exasperation or frustration, often reduplicated or with already.
All right, already! Let me finish what I was doing first, and then we can talk.
- (UK, informal) Term of greeting, equivalent to how are you or hello.
All right, mate, how are things with you and the missus?
Usage notes
- All right can also be used in the literal sense of "everything correct":
- He answered the questions quickly, and he got them all right.
- The inflection and emphasis may vary depending upon what meaning is intended (compare the two US audio pronunciations).
- The spelling alright (by analogy with "already", "altogether", etc) is nonstandard but in widespread use (as of 29 May 2012, having 209,000,000 hits on Google in comparison to 320,000,000 for "all right", although some of the hits for "all right" will be in the sense of "all correct" described in the note above).
Derived terms
Translations
Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent (1)
- Arabic: حَسَنًا (ar) (ḥasanan)
- Armenian: լավ (hy) (lav), բարի (hy) (bari)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 好 (zh) (hǎo), 好的 (zh) (hǎode), 行 (zh) (xíng), 可以 (zh) (kěyǐ)
- Dutch: in orde (nl), goed (nl), oké (nl)
- Faroese: alt í lagi
- Finnish: hyvä on, selvä (fi), samapa se
- French: ça va, c'est bon
- Galician: de acordo
- Georgian: კარგი (ka) (ḳargi)
- German: gut (de), in Ordnung
- Hindi: ठीक (hi) (ṭhīk), अच्छा (hi) (acchā)
- Hungarian: rendben (hu)
- Icelandic: allt í lagi (is)
- Irish: ceart go leor, ceart go leor
- Italian: d'accordo, va bene
- Japanese: (very formal) 畏まりました (かしこまりました, kashikomarimashita), (plain) 了解 (ja) (りょうかい, ryōkai), オーケー (ja) (ōkē), オーライ (ja) (ōrai)
- Khmer: យល់ព្រម (yʊəl prɔɔm)
- Korean: 괜찮아 (gwaenchana), 오케이 (okei), (very formal) 알겠어요 (ko) (algesseoyo)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: باش (ckb) (baş)
- Navajo: wehee, hágoshį́į́, lą́ʼąąʼ
- Portuguese: está bem (pt), tá (pt), tudo bem (pt), tá bom (pt) (nonstandard)
- Russian: ла́дно (ru) (ládno), хорошо́ (ru) (xorošó), оке́й (ru) (okéj)
- Slovak: v poriadku
- Spanish: de acuerdo (es), muy bien, ándale (es) (Mexico), dale (es) (Argentina, Paraguay, Venezuela), listo (es) (Colombia), okey (es) (Latin America), sale y vale (Mexico), 'tá (Uruguay), vale (es) (specially Spain), ya (es) (Chile)
- Swedish: okej (sv)
- Tagalog: sige, okey
- Turkish: pekâlâ (tr)
- Urdu: ٹھیک (ur) (ṭhīk), اچّھا (acchā)
- Welsh: iawn (cy), o'r gorau
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Used to indicate support, favor or encouragement (2)
- Dutch: prima (nl)
- Finnish: jees!
- French: c’est bon !, d'accord !, super (fr)
- German: bravo (de), super (de)
- Portuguese: isso aí!, é isso aí!
- Russian: здорово (ru) (zdorovo), класс (ru) (klass), супер (ru) (super), браво (ru) (bravo), улёт (ru) (uljót), отпад (ru) (otpad), потрясно (ru) (potrjasno)
- Swedish: okej (sv)
- Tagalog: ayos! (tl), okey!
- Turkish: hadi (tr), pekâlâ (tr)
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Used to fill space or pauses (3)
Used as a general lead-in or beginning (4)
Used to express exasperation or frustration, often with already (5)
a greeting, roughly equivalent to how are you (6)
Translations to be checked
See also
Chinese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Japanese オーライ (ōrai), from English all right.
Pronunciation
Interjection
all right
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Norwegian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English all right.
Pronunciation
Adjective
all right
- all right