what does all right mean?
ALL RIGHT as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
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- 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
Similar To
- Meaning
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- he’’s feeling all right again
- I”m fine, how are you?
Similar To
ALL RIGHT as ADVERB
- Meaning
- in a satisfactory or adequate manner
- (`alright” is a nonstandard variant of `all right”)
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Usage Example(s)
- she”ll do okay on her own
- held up all right under pressure
- Meaning
- sentence-initial expression of agreement
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- Meaning
- used to reinforces an assertion
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Usage Example(s)
- it’’s expensive all right
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