all right
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1.0
- idiom
- /ɔl raɪt/
:
desde luego
- You can trust him; he knows what he's doing, all right.
I'm going to come back to this all right now.
- I'm going to come back to this all right now.
- It can, it can lead to lies, all right, which leads you to getting hurt.
- It's easy all right, that's it make it simple.
Examples
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Sometimes it's OK, It's going to be all right because you're in the right place.
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Right, all right, And that's it for the episode.
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And so, you know, it's quite all right to use modern.
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And then they were like all right, this has to come out.
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So, yeah, all right, so on to the next one.
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Hey, man, these are serious charges, all right?
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Well, all right, all right.
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So we're both sorry, all right?
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I know it sounded bad, all right.
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You hit what you were aiming for, all right.
Synonyms
54
8.5
Say this to show you strongly agree with something
1
2.0
Shows that something is true or sure
Antonyms
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'satisfactory/acceptable' is transparently derived from combining 'all' as an intensifier (completely/entirely) with 'right' meaning correct or okay, yielding the sense 'completely right' → 'fine/acceptable'. This intensifier + adjective compositional pattern is common and cross‑linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE’s meaning.
Etymology
All right in the sense 'certainly' comes from all meaning 'completely' and right meaning 'true'. Saying it makes a statement stronger, so it can mean 'certainly' or 'without doubt'.