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irie

irie adjective: cool, nice.

Adjective

irie (comparative more irie, superlative most irie)

  1. (Jamaica) Cool, nice.

Forms of irie

comparativemore irie
superlativemost irie

Origin of irie

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole irie, which is perhaps from English all right. Compare a'ight. The applied context of the remark, may also allude to a corruption of the conjugation of the french verb 'rier', such that, "I am laughing", would be a parabolic inference, about 'rightness'.

Questions about irie

What does irie mean?
Irie means cool, nice.
What part of speech is irie?
Irie is an adjective.

Words near irie in the dictionary

  1. iridovirid
  2. iridovirids
  3. iridovirus
  4. iridoviruses
  5. irids
  6. irie
  7. Iriga
  8. Irigarayan
  9. irigenin
  10. iriginite
  11. Irigoyen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: irie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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