all right

Adjective

all right (not comparable)

1. Good; in acceptable, if not excellent condition.
   • The car is all right. It gets me there, anyway.
2. In good health, unharmed.
   • I had a headache earlier, but now I'm all right.
   • The dread of most etherizers is a quiet breather who may stop breathing without his notice, and requires the almost constant presence of his ear at the patient's mouth to be sure he or she is all right.1903, William Brodie, Carl Jungk, Francis Edward Stewart, The Therapeutic Gazette, page 536

Adverb

all right (not comparable)

1. Fairly well.
   • It went all right because my old drill still works all right.
   • Its Chairman stated last December: "We believe that if we establish a sensible, coherent system, try to be as efficient as possible, get new equipment as fast as we're able and show our passengers we like them, we'll do all right."1958 May, John R. Day, “Railway Prospects in the U.S.A.”, in Railway Magazine, page 347
2. (informal) Most certainly; for sure.
   • You taught them a lesson all right! They won't be back.

Interjection

1. Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent.
   • All right, let's go then.
   • Presently there came a loud ring, then a decided voice, asking for 'Mr. Laurie', and a surprised-looking servant came running up to announce a young lady. "All right, show her up, it's Miss Jo," said Laurie, going to the door of his little parlor to meet Jo, who appeared, looking rosy and quite at...1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
2. Used to indicate support, favor or encouragement.
   • All right! They scored!
3. Used to fill space or pauses.
   • All right, so what you suggest we do next?
4. Used as a general lead-in or beginning.
   • All right, let's get started.
5. Used to express exasperation or frustration, often reduplicated or with already.
   • All right, already! Let me finish what I was doing first, and then we can talk.
   • Jasdeep: Why don’t you command yourself to buy us new clothes, cheapskate?
     Sultan: What? Who said that? Speak up!
     Anbumani: And while you’re at it, I wouldn’t mind a better place to live. Six people in one room at the Route 16 Motel, stinks.
     Sultan: All right! That was you, Sultana! I know that...2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 29
6. (UK, informal) Term of greeting, equivalent to how are you or hello.
   • All right, mate, how are things with you and the missus?