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Definition: All Right |
All RightAdjective1. (informal) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-right movie"; "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". 2. Being in good health; "he's feeling all right again"; "I'm fine, how are you?". Adverb1. Sentence-initial expression of agreement. 2. Reinforces an assertion, as in "It's expensive all right". 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: All RightSynonyms: all right(p) (adj), all-right(a) (adj), hunky-dory (adj), alright (adv), fine (adv), okay (adv), very well (adv), without doubt (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assent | OK, all right, might as well, why not? |
Content | Satisfactory, tolerable, good enough, OK, all right, acceptable. |
Right | Interjection: all right! fair's fair. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: All Right |
| English words defined with "all right": alright ♦ concernedly ♦ fine ♦ o.k., okay ♦ resignedly ♦ with concern. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "all right": Addixit ♦ overflow bit ♦ story. (references) |
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Screenplays | Well that's all right. (Red River; writing credit: Borden Chase) You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett) It's all right there - all right there (Twelve Monkeys; writing credit: David Webb Peoples) It's all right, it's all right (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) You all right in there (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont) | |
Lyrics | Is all right with me ("Let's Stay Together"; performing artist: Al Green) True that you can work it out all right (I'm Outta Love; performing artist: Anastacia; writing credit: Anastacia Newkirk, Sam Watters, Louis Biancaniello) Hey she give me love and I feel all right now (MONY MONY; performing artist: Billy Idol) And Selma, yeah she's all right (Storybook Life; performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls) Well all right okay (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler) | |
Clever | Did you hear about the man who lost his whole left side? He's all right now. (references; author: unknown) If you are willing to admit you are wrong when you are wrong, you are all right. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | I'm All Right Jack (1959) Du Barry Did All Right (1937) It Happened All Right (1936) That's All Right (1989) | |
Song Titles | All Right Now (performing artist: Free) It's All Right (performing artist: The Impressions) | |
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 | He's out! he shouted. You're sure? this is no flivver? ... All right, call me again in five minutes. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | I'm quite all right now, thank you. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | To enlighten a foreign critic. The Chicago citizen: Sir, we have the ruins, all right, but we are tired of preserving them. They won't keep. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | She's all right. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Just stand pat and everything will be all right! / Gib Crockett. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | All right in its place, but it's a big burden for the U.S. mail to carry. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Who stole the tarts?] "All right, so far," said the King .. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tillie the toiler. This life is all right, but these fellows are playboys. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "It's all right to seat them. They're not Americans" / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hello! Hello! Is that so? Whitney Opera Co.? All right save me a box. What's the opera? A Normandy wedding. That's funny! Be sure and save the box. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Billy Graham | I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. |
Thomas Carlyle | For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. |
Tori Amos | I'd like to think that my work has multidimensionality. That I can change a pair of shoes in the middle of the song and it's OK. That there is no structure that says I have to wear the same pair all the way through. As long as I've got feet, it's all right. |
Vince Lombardi | All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means...you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else. |
Vinet | God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Abolition of all right of inheritance. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | It was all right, all open, all equal |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | It's all right. There's nothing to see, it's all over |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | it is all right. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Crocodile said all right if she told him what he was going to do with the child, eat it or not eat it. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | But it was all right. |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | Guildenstern: Where? Rosencrantz: It's all right - I'm demonstrating the misuse of free speech |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Feeling angry or depressed is common and perfectly all right. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes." |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Mark Shields | All right, Congressman Watts, Majority Leader Dick Armey has announced his intention to retire from the House, and Tom DeLay of Texas, the whip, is expected to succeed him. |
Robert Atkins | Well, all right, so you got a good start but eventually you'll switch on to ongoing weight loss anyway and you'll get to the point where you only lose one pound a week. |
Rosie O'Donnell | I didn't get to go down there. I felt like I would not be able to, you know, be all right. Everyone has to deal with it in the way that they deal with it. For me, I didn't think I would be able to physically see it. |
Samantha Geimer | Oh, right, he photographed me topless. He'd seen me topless. I just was thinking, well this is very European, it must be all right. |
Trisha Meili | You know, seeing myself have difficulty with things, primarily on the cognitive side. The physical side I was not able to accept and say, all right, so what, you know, I have a little bit of problem walking down stairs, and it's OK, I can deal with it. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side. |
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Expressions using "all right": at all right ♦ i feel all right now ♦ it sounds all right ♦ it's all right ♦ look all right. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
all right reserved | 40 |
be all right | 15 |
thats all right | 7 |
be all right lyrics | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "all right"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | në rregull (alright, in order, in turn, ok, okay, okey, on an even keel, properly, roger, safely, straight), dakord (agreed, alright, ready). (various references) | |
Arabic | مضبوط (accurate, correct, exact, ok, okay, okey, perfect, precise, proper, right, sound, valid), حسنا (alright, ok, okay, okey, well), حاجة تمام (ok, okay, okey), تماما (all, alright, 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), على ما يرام (aright, ok, okay, okey, smasher). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | наред (in succession), наистина (actually, for real, forsooth, in all verity, in sooth, indeed, real, really, sure, sure enough, surely, true, truly, verily, yea), задоволително (passably, well), благополучно (safely, successfully, without a hitch), добре (good, nicely, right, righto, well). (various references) | |
Chinese | 行 (a row, behavior, capable, competent, conduct, OK, okay, profession, professional, temporary, to do, to go, to travel, to walk, will do), 得了 (be finished, be ready, that's enough). (various references) | |
Czech | zdravý (fit, good, Hale, healthful, healthly, healthy, right, salubrious, sound, strong, well, well balanced, wholesome), v pořádku (safe, shipshape), tak dobře, správnì (aright, by rights, correctly, duly, precisely, properly, right, rightly), nevinný (blameless, dewy-eyed, guiltless, innocent, innocuous, not guilty, white), dobrý (fair, glad, good, sensible, soft, strong, useful), dobře (clearly, good, ok, okay, okey-dokey, well). (various references) | |
Danish | det gør ikke noget (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
Dutch | wel (admittedly, although, certainly, fountain, indeed, now, probably, quite, rather, rather allright, source, spring, surely, though, untranslated, well, well then, well-being), oké (okay, right). (various references) | |
Finnish | voin hyvin (I am all right, I am quite well, I am well, I feel well), jos se sopii sinulle (if that's all right by you). (various references) | |
French | très bien, pas mal, exactement, d'accord (alright), bien (alright), ça va. (various references) | |
German | schon gut (never mind, okay), schon (already, anyway, by now, ever, just, really, yet), in ordnung (agreed, alright, decent, groovy, it was nothing, o.k., okay, spick and span, to remedy), gut (belongings, beneficial, capable, domain, efficiently, estate, farm, fine, freight, gear, good, goods, handsomely, holding, item, keen, manor, material, nice, nicely, o.k., okay, possession, property, quiet, ranch, rigging, safely, sharp, solid, that's good, understood, well). (various references) | |
Greek | εντάξει (alright, as right as a trivet, OK). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בס"ר (alright, o.k., okay). (various references) | |
Hungarian | minden rendben (all clear, all is well). (various references) | |
Icelandic | það var ekkert (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome), það gerir ekkert til (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bolehlah, biarlah (that will do). (various references) | |
Italian | okay (okay), giusto (correct, correctly, done, equitable, exact, exactly, fair, just, proper, right, righteous, rightful, sharp, sound, Square, suitable), d'accordo (together), bene (aright, asset, cool, fine, gift, good, o.k., OK, okay, possession, properly, really, right, very, well, wide). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 宜しい (can, fine, good, may, OK, very well, will do). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しめた (fine, I've got it), オーライ (O.K.), よろしい (can, fine, good, may, OK, very well, will do), よし (all right!, bulrush, cause, good, OK!, reason, reed, significance, so, well), じゅ"ちょう (doing well, favourable, O.K.), いじょうぶ (O.K., safe). (various references) | |
Malay | tidak apa apa (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
Manx | ooilley kiart (alright, OK). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ingen årsak (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome), det gjør ikke noe (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allay ightray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | correto (accurate, anchored, clean-fingered, correct, genteel, gentlemanlike, incorrupt, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, proper, seemly, sportsmanlike, sporty, true), certo (absolute, accurate, assured, certain, clean-cut, clock-work, confident, correct, exact, fit, insurant, jumped-up, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, precise, precision, reliable, secure, such, sure, true, well-defined), certamente (aright, by all means, certainly, indeed, naturally, sure, surely). (various references) | |
Romanian | sãnãtate bunã (good bye, nothing doing), sã fie şi aşa, s-a comis (done), perfect (a1, absolute, accomplished, blameless, classic, consummate, faultless, flawless, good enough, okay, out and out, perfect, perfectly, pure, quite so, right-down, ripe, that's fine, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, tiptop, total, unimpeachable), de acord (agreed, fair enough, granted, okay), în regulã (allright, okay). (various references) | |
Russian | хорошо (allright, all-right, alright, al-right, fair enough, good, lockfast, nicely, ok, okay, okey, well, well-done). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | u redu (line: in a line, ok, okay, okey, order: in order, shipshape, well). (various references) | |
Somali | hagaag (right). (various references) | |
Spanish | está bien (alright, o.k., ok, okay, okey), de acuerdo (agreed, alright, at one, in accordance, in agreement, it is agreed, okay, roger), bueno (alright, 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, strong, useful, well, what, whatever), bien (alright, amply, benefit, decently, fine, good, nice, nicely, okay, prettily, properly, quite right, right, rightly, sake, thank you, tidily, true, welfare, well). (various references) | |
Swedish | bra (bonny, fine, funky, good, great, jolly, longish, nice, not badly, o.k., ok, okay, okeydokey, quite, right, useful, very, very much, well). (various references) | |
Turkish | tamam (according to hoyle, agreed, alright, complete, done, exactly, finished, it's a deal, mature, o.k., ok, okay, precisely, righto, rightoh, roger, yeah), peki (alright, good, o.k., ok, okay, very well, well), olur (agreed, alright, can do, it'll be, o.k., ok, okay, yes), iyi (agreeable, alright, b, comfortable, decent, decently, fair, fine, good, gratifying, great, happy, just, kind, o.k., ok, okay, sound, well, well enough), fena değil (good deal, not bad, passable, so so), şöyle böyle (after a fashion, indifferent, middling, so so). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | добре (decently, familiarly, good, nicely, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, right-ho, smoothly, well). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tốt (decently, famously, feracious, fertile, fine, hunky, o.k., splendid), ho n to n (all, all-in-all, altogether, backbone, clean, completely, consummate, due, full, fully, heartily, hilt, hollow, inch, out-and-out, outright, perfectly, profound, purely, quite, regular, sheer, stark, thorough, thoroughly, undivided, utter, utterly, wholly), ho n hảo; đúng như ý muốn, bình yên vô sự; khoẻ mạnh tốt, ổn, được (about, o.k., serene, yes, yeses). (various references) | |
Welsh | o'r gorau (OK, very well), iawn (amends, atonement, quite, right, very, very much). (various references) | |
Zulu | akunandaba (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"All Right" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Allwright. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-l-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: alright. | |
-2 letters: alight, aright, thalli, thrall, thrill. | |
-3 letters: airth, argil, garth, girth, glair, glial, grail, grill, grith, hilar, laigh, laith, lathi, light, right, thill, thirl, tragi, trail, trial, trill. | |
-4 letters: airt, alit, aril, gait, gall, ghat, gill, gilt, girl, girt, glia, grat, grit, hail, hair, hall, halt, harl, hart, hila, hill, hilt, lair, lari. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-l-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: thralling. | |
+2 letters: ultralight. | |
+3 letters: enthralling, inthralling, lamplighter, ultralights. | |
+4 letters: hellgrammite, lamplighters, triglyphical. | |
+5 letters: calligraphist, candlelighter, hellgrammites, lethargically. | |
| 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. | |
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