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All right   /ɔl raɪt/   Listen
All right

adjective
1.
Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.  Synonyms: fine, hunky-dory, o.k., ok, okay.  "The passengers were shaken up but are all right" , "Is everything all right?" , "Everything's fine" , "Things are okay" , "Dinner and the movies had been fine" , "Another minute I'd have been fine"
adverb
1.
An expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence.  Synonyms: alright, fine, OK, very well.
2.
Without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion).  Synonym: alright.
3.
In a satisfactory or adequate manner.  Synonyms: alright, O.K., okay.  "Held up all right under pressure"






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"All right" Quotes from Famous Books



... valet, with a most knowing leer, facetiously smiling. "I have them—all safe—all right, gentlemen. Here they are," continued the man, pulling them out, and presenting them as if he had done a very clever thing. "Here ...
— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... forty, was in the act of draining a glass, when, though the bottom he caught sight of Siward. He finished in a gulp, and advanced, one muscular hand outstretched: "Hello, Stephen! Heard you'd arrived, tried the Scotch, and bolted with Sylvia Landis! That's all right, too, but you should have come for the opening day. Lots of native woodcock—eh, Blinky?" turning to Lord Alderdene; and again to Siward: "You know all these fellows—Mortimer yonder—" There was the slightest ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers

... bringing a pretty girl to a fashionable watering place to marry her off, but these folks are not poor. Not what we'd call rich, perhaps, but good and solid. I don't fall for the old lady; she's a cool proposition or I miss my guess, but the girl's all right. I've seen too many girls in this Mecca for adventurous females and never made a mistake yet. I wish some of our grand dames would extend the glad hand. But I'm afraid they won't. Terrible ...
— The Avalanche • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... card) on that not very famous or familiar brand, Roussillon. I remembered it was a wine I had never tasted, ordered a bottle, found it excellent, and when I had discussed the contents, called (according to my habit) for a final pint. It appears they did not keep Roussillon in half-bottles. "All right," said I, "another bottle." The tables at this eating-house are close together; and the next thing I can remember, I was in somewhat loud conversation with my nearest neighbours. From these I must have gradually extended my attentions; ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... said so to-day, and now you say just the same thing. I don't believe one word of ancient history. Not—one—word! They wrote it about their own nations, didn't they? All right. Then you might just as well expect them to tell what really happened, as think that I'd tell on another boy in my own school. I must say it would be as mean as dog pie of them if they did, but all the same that does not make ...
— The Little City Of Hope - A Christmas Story • F. Marion Crawford


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