"alright" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˌɔːlˈɹaɪt/ [UK], /ɔːˈɹaɪt/ [colloquial], /ɒˈɹaɪt/ [colloquial], /əˈɹaɪt/ [colloquial], /ˌɔlˈɹaɪt/ [US], /ˌɑlˈɹaɪt/ [cot-caught-merger], /ɒːlˈɹʌɪt/ [Canada], [ɒː(ɫ)ˈɹəi̯t] (note: Ottawa Valley), [ə(ɫ)ˈɹiːt] (note: Ottawa Valley), [ˈɒː(ɫ)ɹɪt] (note: Ottawa Valley), [-ʔ] (note: Ottawa Valley) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-alright.wav [UK], en-us-alright.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -aɪt Etymology: Univerbation from all + right. Compare Old English eallriht (“all-right, just, exactly”), equivalent to al- (“all”) + right. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₃reǵ-}}, {{l|en|univerbation#Noun|Univerbation}} Univerbation, {{compound|en|all|right}} all + right, {{cog|ang|eallriht||all-right, just, exactly}} Old English eallriht (“all-right, just, exactly”), {{prefix|en|al|right|t1=all}} al- (“all”) + right Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} alright (not comparable)
  1. (sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of all right; satisfactory; okay; in acceptable order. Tags: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable, proscribed, sometimes Alternative form of: all right (extra: satisfactory; okay; in acceptable order) Synonyms: acceptable, adequate, fine, satisfactory Derived forms: bit of alright, you're alright
    Sense id: en-alright-en-adj-xQnnOjOo
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: aight [African-American-Vernacular-English, UK], all right, alrite, awright, oright, o-rite, orite

Adverb [English]

IPA: /ˌɔːlˈɹaɪt/ [UK], /ɔːˈɹaɪt/ [colloquial], /ɒˈɹaɪt/ [colloquial], /əˈɹaɪt/ [colloquial], /ˌɔlˈɹaɪt/ [US], /ˌɑlˈɹaɪt/ [cot-caught-merger], /ɒːlˈɹʌɪt/ [Canada], [ɒː(ɫ)ˈɹəi̯t] (note: Ottawa Valley), [ə(ɫ)ˈɹiːt] (note: Ottawa Valley), [ˈɒː(ɫ)ɹɪt] (note: Ottawa Valley), [-ʔ] (note: Ottawa Valley) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-alright.wav [UK], en-us-alright.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -aɪt Etymology: Univerbation from all + right. Compare Old English eallriht (“all-right, just, exactly”), equivalent to al- (“all”) + right. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₃reǵ-}}, {{l|en|univerbation#Noun|Univerbation}} Univerbation, {{compound|en|all|right}} all + right, {{cog|ang|eallriht||all-right, just, exactly}} Old English eallriht (“all-right, just, exactly”), {{prefix|en|al|right|t1=all}} al- (“all”) + right Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} alright (not comparable)
  1. (sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of all right. Tags: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable, proscribed, sometimes Alternative form of: all right
    Sense id: en-alright-en-adv-Di~aUuTT
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: aight [African-American-Vernacular-English, UK], all right, alrite, awright, oright, o-rite, orite

Interjection [English]

IPA: /ˌɔːlˈɹaɪt/ [UK], /ɔːˈɹaɪt/ [colloquial], /ɒˈɹaɪt/ [colloquial], /əˈɹaɪt/ [colloquial], /ˌɔlˈɹaɪt/ [US], /ˌɑlˈɹaɪt/ [cot-caught-merger], /ɒːlˈɹʌɪt/ [Canada], [ɒː(ɫ)ˈɹəi̯t] (note: Ottawa Valley), [ə(ɫ)ˈɹiːt] (note: Ottawa Valley), [ˈɒː(ɫ)ɹɪt] (note: Ottawa Valley), [-ʔ] (note: Ottawa Valley) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-alright.wav [UK], en-us-alright.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -aɪt Etymology: Univerbation from all + right. Compare Old English eallriht (“all-right, just, exactly”), equivalent to al- (“all”) + right. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₃reǵ-}}, {{l|en|univerbation#Noun|Univerbation}} Univerbation, {{compound|en|all|right}} all + right, {{cog|ang|eallriht||all-right, just, exactly}} Old English eallriht (“all-right, just, exactly”), {{prefix|en|al|right|t1=all}} al- (“all”) + right Head templates: {{en-interj}} alright
  1. (informal) Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance; OK. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-alright-en-intj-dmfQeVXJ
  2. (UK, informal) A generic greeting; hello; how are you. Tags: UK, informal Categories (topical): Greetings Synonyms: hello Related terms (greeting): alright me babber, alright me lover
    Sense id: en-alright-en-intj-OfpFxkS1 Disambiguation of Greetings: 6 7 4 82 Categories (other): British English Disambiguation of 'greeting': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: aight [African-American-Vernacular-English, UK], all right, alrite, awright, oright, o-rite, orite Derived forms: alrighty
Related terms: Some distinguish between alright and all right by using alright to mean "fine, good, okayall correct". Alternatively (english: and all right to mean; or in addition to the previous), Alright may be used as an interjection akin to (english: OK), while all right is used in the sense of "unharmed, healthy", The contracted term is considered nonstandard by Garner's Modern American Usage and American Heritage Dictionary. Indeed, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that although analogous forms exist in words such as already, altogether and always (english: and, indeed, although!), "the contracted form is strongly criticized in the vast majority of usage guides, but without cogent reasonsalright remains nonstandardstill regarded as being unacceptable in formal writing". Other dictionaries and style manuals also consider it incorrect (english: . The Oxford Dictionaries also conclude that; and that it is), less correct than all right

Alternative forms

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        }
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        "UK",
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      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˌɔːlˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɔːˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɒˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɔlˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɑlˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɒːlˈɹʌɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɒː(ɫ)ˈɹəi̯t]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ə(ɫ)ˈɹiːt]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɒː(ɫ)ɹɪt]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[-ʔ]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
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    },
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        "UK"
      ],
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    },
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    },
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    },
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    },
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    },
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    },
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    }
  ],
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}
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  ],
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    },
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    }
  ],
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    },
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "al",
        "3": "right",
        "t1": "all"
      },
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    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "-"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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        {
          "extra": "satisfactory; okay; in acceptable order",
          "word": "all right"
        }
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1662 : Cantus, songs and fancies, to three, four, or five parts, both apt for voices and viols : with a brief introduction to musick, as is taught by Thomas Davidson, in the Musick-School of Aberdene by Thomas Davidson, iii. sig. B/1",
          "text": "Where ever I go, both to and fro\nYou have my heart alright."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1932, Langston Hughes, Goodbye, Christ",
          "text": "You did alright in your day, I reckon—\nBut that day's gone now.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves, page 105",
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          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of all right; satisfactory; okay; in acceptable order."
      ],
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        [
          "all right",
          "all right#English"
        ],
        [
          "satisfactory",
          "satisfactory"
        ],
        [
          "okay",
          "okay"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of all right; satisfactory; okay; in acceptable order."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "acceptable"
        },
        {
          "word": "adequate"
        },
        {
          "word": "fine"
        },
        {
          "word": "satisfactory"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "not-comparable",
        "proscribed",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɔːlˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɔːˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɒˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɔlˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɑlˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɒːlˈɹʌɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɒː(ɫ)ˈɹəi̯t]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ə(ɫ)ˈɹiːt]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɒː(ɫ)ɹɪt]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[-ʔ]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪt"
    },
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        "UK"
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    },
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    },
    {
      "word": "alrite"
    },
    {
      "word": "awright"
    },
    {
      "word": "oright"
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    {
      "word": "o-rite"
    },
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      "word": "orite"
    }
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    },
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        "3": "right",
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      "expansion": "alright (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        }
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      ],
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        "Alternative form of all right."
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          "all right#English"
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        "(sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of all right."
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        "alternative",
        "not-comparable",
        "proscribed",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɔːˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɒˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɔlˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɑlˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɒːlˈɹʌɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɒː(ɫ)ˈɹəi̯t]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ə(ɫ)ˈɹiːt]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɒː(ɫ)ɹɪt]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[-ʔ]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪt"
    },
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        "African-American-Vernacular-English",
        "UK"
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    },
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      "word": "all right"
    },
    {
      "word": "alrite"
    },
    {
      "word": "awright"
    },
    {
      "word": "oright"
    },
    {
      "word": "o-rite"
    },
    {
      "word": "orite"
    }
  ],
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}

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      "word": "alrighty"
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      "name": "prefix"
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      "word": "alright me babber"
    },
    {
      "sense": "greeting",
      "word": "alright me lover"
    },
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      "word": "Some distinguish between alright and all right by using alright to mean \"fine"
    },
    {
      "word": "good"
    },
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      "word": "okayall correct\". Alternatively"
    },
    {
      "english": "OK",
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    },
    {
      "word": "while all right is used in the sense of \"unharmed"
    },
    {
      "word": "healthy\""
    },
    {
      "word": "The contracted term is considered nonstandard by Garner's Modern American Usage and American Heritage Dictionary. Indeed"
    },
    {
      "word": "the Oxford English Dictionary notes that although analogous forms exist in words such as already"
    },
    {
      "english": "and, indeed, although!",
      "word": "altogether and always"
    },
    {
      "word": "\"the contracted form is strongly criticized in the vast majority of usage guides"
    },
    {
      "english": ". The Oxford Dictionaries also conclude that; and that it is",
      "word": "but without cogent reasonsalright remains nonstandardstill regarded as being unacceptable in formal writing\". Other dictionaries and style manuals also consider it incorrect"
    },
    {
      "word": "less correct than all right"
    }
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        "English informal terms"
      ],
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        "Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance; OK."
      ],
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          "OK"
        ]
      ],
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        "(informal) Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance; OK."
      ],
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        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English informal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A generic greeting; hello; how are you."
      ],
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          "hello",
          "hello"
        ],
        [
          "how are you",
          "how are you"
        ]
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        "(UK, informal) A generic greeting; hello; how are you."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "hello"
        }
      ],
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        "informal"
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˌɔːlˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɔːˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɒˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɔlˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɑlˈɹaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɒːlˈɹʌɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɒː(ɫ)ˈɹəi̯t]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ə(ɫ)ˈɹiːt]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɒː(ɫ)ɹɪt]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[-ʔ]",
      "note": "Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪt"
    },
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        "UK"
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    },
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      "word": "alrite"
    },
    {
      "word": "awright"
    },
    {
      "word": "oright"
    },
    {
      "word": "o-rite"
    },
    {
      "word": "orite"
    }
  ],
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-03-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-03-01 using wiktextract (68773ab and 5f6ddbb). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.