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Definitions: Alright |
AlrightAdjective1. Nonstandard usage. Adverb1. Reinforces an assertion, as in "It's expensive all right". 2. Sentence-initial expression of agreement. 3. (informal) in a satisfactory or adequate manner; "she'll do okay on her own"; "held up all right under pressure"; (`alright' is a nonstandard variant of `all right'). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: AlrightSynonyms: all right (adv), fine (adv), okay (adv), very well (adv), without doubt (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Alright |
| Specialty definitions using "alright": orale. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh well, alright, let's all sell our souls and work for Satan because it's more convenient that way. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) Alright, important safety tip, thanks Egon. (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) Alright, I can see you don't want to be consoled here, Dude. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) Are you alright there Vincent? (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Of course I'm not alright! (The Mask of Zorro; writing credit: Johnston McCulley; Ted Elliott) | |
Lyrics | It's alright with me (Whip Appeal; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface, Perri Smith) That's alright with me (Alright; performing artist: Janet Jackson) Say That I'm Alright (Dirty Diana; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Michael Jackson) I`m alright, I`m alright (Somebody To Love; performing artist: QUEEN; writing credit: Freddie Mercury) It's gonna be alright (TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT (Gonna Be Alright); performing artist: ROD STEWART) | |
Movie/TV Titles | I'm Alright Now (1967) It'll Be Alright on the Night 16 (2003) Alright on the Night's All Star Special (2003) More Kids From It'll Be Alright on the Night (2002) Alright Already (1997) | |
Song Titles | Alright (performing artist: Janet Jackson) I'm Gonna Be Alright (performing artist: Jennifer Lopez featuring Nas) I'm Alright (performing artist: Kenny Loggins) Uptight (Everything's Alright) (performing artist: Stevie Wonder) Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) (performing artist: The Who) | |
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 | Man speaking "all right" with excitement; alright. |
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Bill Hicks | I love talking about the Warren Commission, I love talking about the Kennedy assasination as well. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that's interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy. Sarcasm - come on in. People say, "Bill, quit talking about Kennedy man. It was a long time ago, just let it go, alright? It's a long time ago, just forget it." I'm like, alright, then don't bring up Jesus to me. As long as we're talking shelf life here, you know. |
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| "Alright" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 57.12% of the time. "Alright" is used about 8,308 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 57.12% | 4,746 | 2,063 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 42.88% | 3,562 | 2,732 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8,308 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "alright": I'm-alright-jacks. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "alright"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | në rregull (all right, in order, in turn, ok, okay, okey, on an even keel, properly, roger, safely, straight), mirë (decently, good, myrrh, nice, nicely, ok, okay, okey, securely, well), dakord (agreed, all right, ready). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | من غير ريب (absolutely, assuredly, decidedly, distinctly, easily, of course, really, sure, surely, verily), حسنا (all right, ok, okay, okey, well), تماما (all, all right, altogether, completely, decidedly, diametrically, enough, entirely, exactly, fairly, fully, in full, just, ok, okay, okey, perfectly, plumb, precisely, properly, quite, quite so, right, sharp, simply, smack, so far so good, stark, stock, thoroughly, through and through, totally, utterly, very, well, wholly, wide), صحيح (accurate, aright, be in the right, consonantal, correct, entire, exact, faithful, hale, honest, indeed, ortho, plumb, precise, proper, pure, real, reasonable, regular, right, seemly, sincere, true, unbroken, valid, veracious, veritable, whole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 行. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ještì (another, any, at, more, still, yet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans doute, d'accord (all right), correct, comme il faut, bien (all right). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | in Ordnung (agreed, all right, decent, groovy, it was nothing, o.k., okay, spick and span, to remedy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καλώσ (well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משביע רצון (enough, satisfactory), בס"ר (all right, O.K., okay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rendben van (nuff said, nuff sed, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, to be in good trim, to be in order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Luganda | bulungi (am alright, am okay dear, good, properly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ooilley kiart (all right, OK). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pidgin English | well (clearly, very, well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alrightay удовлетворительно (passably, satisfactorily, satisfyingly), разумеется (needless to say), как нужно, приемлемо (acceptably, adequately, reasonably). (various references) sve uredu. (various references) está bien (all right, o.k., ok, okay, okey), de acuerdo (agreed, all right, at one, in accordance, in agreement, it is agreed, okay, roger), correctamente (correctly, properly, right, rightly), bueno (all right, cheering, convenient, cosy, cozy, cult, decent, enjoyable, fair, fine, glad, good, goodly, Goody, hallo, hearty, hello, high, hullo, kind, kindly, nice, okay, plenteous, plentiful, right, sound, strong, useful, well, what, whatever), bien (all right, amply, benefit, decently, fine, good, nice, nicely, okay, prettily, properly, quite right, right, rightly, sake, stet, thank you, tidily, true, welfare, well). (various references) haya. (various references) ti'a (sharp). (various references) yolunda (in the groove, in the wake of, on foot, on track, prosperous, right, swimmingly), tamam (according to hoyle, agreed, all right, complete, done, exactly, finished, it's a deal, mature, o.k., ok, okay, precisely, righto, rightoh, roger, yeah), peki (all right, good, o.k., ok, okay, very well, well), olur (agreed, all right, can do, it'll be, o.k., ok, okay, yes), iyi (agreeable, all right, b, comfortable, decent, decently, fair, fine, good, gratifying, great, happy, just, kind, o.k., ok, okay, sound, well, well enough). (various references) гаразд (done, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, so), правильно (accurately, aright, correctly, duly, normally, o.k., ok, okay, okey, properly, regular, regularly, right, right on, rightly, straight, that's right). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "alright" (pronounced ô'lrī"t) |
| 3 | -r ī" t | bright, contrite, forthright, fright, outright, overwrite, rewrite, right, rite, sprite, trite, upright, Wright, write. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: alight, aright. | |
-2 letters: airth, argil, garth, girth, glair, grail, grith, hilar, laigh, laith, lathi, light, right, thirl, tragi, trail, trial. | |
-3 letters: airt, alit, aril, gait, ghat, gilt, girl, girt, glia, grat, grit, hail, hair, halt, harl, hart, hila, hilt, lair, lari, lath, lati, liar, lira, ragi, rail, rath, rial, tahr, tail, tali, thir. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: litharge, thirlage. | |
+2 letters: algorithm, earthling, ghastlier, haltering, lathering, lethargic, litharges, logarithm, starlight, thirlages, thralling, trachling, ultrahigh. | |
+3 letters: algorithms, arthralgia, arthralgic, blathering, earthlight, earthlings, gastrolith, leathering, lethargies, lighterage, lithograph, logarithms, playwright, slathering, starlights, straightly, stringhalt, theurgical, trauchling, ultralight, ultraright. | |
+4 letters: algorithmic, arthralgias, cologarithm, earthlights, enthralling, farthingale, gastroliths, granolithic, hairstyling, inthralling, lamplighter, latchstring, lighterages, lithographs, lithography, logarithmic, nightwalker, playwrights, searchlight, stringhalts, telegraphic, ultralights. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 72 69 67 68 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-. .. --. .... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01110010 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l r i g h t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 0072 0069 0067 0068 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35788475737486 |
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