👍 Agreement 👌 Satisfactory 🙂 Adequately ✅ Certainly

all right

706 1.0

In a good enough way

adverb
/ɔl raɪt/

: bien

Is the car functioning all right?
turn out all right

And you do it all right here from your phone.

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Examples

Seems like you walked away all right.

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Will you see that she gets there all right?

Stagecoach (1939)
It's like we'll be all right for forever this way.
Hey, is everything all right between you and my daughter?

Broken City (2013)
Seems to be all right now.

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
It's going to be all right.

Dirty Harry (1971)
But Mr. Kinkaid said it would be all right.

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
"Is it all right if we come on in?" "It's all right," Ken smiled at Helen.

Fiction book (1990)
The shop in London's doing all right, the one in Brighton's almost breaking even.

Sleuth (1972)
Call me and let me know you got home all right, okay?

Synonyms

well

vsall right

∞ 1.0

In a good or skillful way

is weaker, indicating adequate rather than high quality

fine

vsall right

∞ 1.0

In good enough condition so no one needs to worry

focuses more on general acceptability rather than detailed condition

very well

vsall right

919 1.0

In a fairly good way

is more neutral, describing plain acceptability rather than higher praise

acceptable

vsall right

477 2.5

Good enough for a particular use or standard

is the broader everyday idea of being good enough

all good

vsall right

Informal

139 5.4

Everything is fine with no problems or worries

is a more general comment about acceptability rather than all clear

reasonably

vsall right

129 2.2

To a fair degree but not very much

is the simple satisfactory standard rather than a moderate degree

adequately

vsall right

83 3.0

In a way that is good enough for the task

is the everyday judgment that the result is acceptable

satisfactory

vsall right

81 2.3

Good enough to meet a need but not very good

is the more casual way to say something is acceptable

decently

vsall right

20 2.7

In a proper and respectful way

is about simple adequacy rather than propriety or respectability

acceptably

vsall right

2 3.2

In a way that is good enough but not very good

is the general state of being acceptable rather than the manner

right enough

vsall right

2 6.3

Correct enough to be useful

is the everyday idea of adequacy rather than formal correctness

passably

vsall right

1 4.6

Good enough to do the job but not very good

is the normal acceptable level rather than barely acceptable

alright

vsall right

Informal

1 1.1

In a way that is good enough but not very good

is the general acceptable standard of adequacy

okay

vsall right

1 1.0

In a way that is good enough

is the general acceptable standard of adequacy

a-okay

vsall right

Informal

1 7.8

In perfect condition and ready to use

is milder, meaning merely acceptable rather than perfect

vsall right

1 1.0

In a way that is good enough but not very good

is the general acceptable standard of adequacy

Antonyms

unsatisfactory

17 3.9

Not good enough to be acceptable

How Well

excellently

8 2.8

well

∞ 1.0

all right

706 1.0

adequately

83 3.0

Surface Forms

all right positive

alright positive

Morphology

all + right

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 'in a good enough way' comes from the idea that all plus right means things are 'good enough'. So if something goes 'all right', it means it happened in an acceptable way.