👍 Agreement 🙂 Okay ✅ Certainly 👌 Well enough

alright

23 1.1

In a way that is good enough but not very good

adverb
/ɔːlˈraɪt/

Informal

: bien

Rebecca—I’m glad everything has turned out alright—and for what it's worth, I have scissors in my car's first aid kit.

But so far working pretty alright.

Examples

I hope everything turns out alright.
We can handle it alright.

Royal Wedding (1951)
And sometimes I might just be like, alright, let me go try this.
I hope everything turns out alright.

Night Shift (1982)
Everything is going to turn out alright.

Any Number Can Play (1949)
Everything is going to turn out alright.
You're doing alright there.

Synonyms

very well

vsalright

∞ 1.0

In a fairly good way

is weaker, meaning just adequate rather than fairly good

all right

vsalright

145 1.0

In a good enough way

leans more to simple sufficiency rather than notable quality

okay

vsalright

142 1.0

In a way that is good enough

is about simple adequacy rather than any high quality

adequately

vsalright

80 3.0

In a way that is good enough for the task

is broader, signaling everyday adequacy rather than specific sufficiency

vsalright

69 1.0

In a way that is good enough but not very good

focuses on adequacy rather than suggesting it is excellent

so-so

vsalright

40 3.8

In a way that is neither good nor bad

is more neutral, indicating acceptable performance without negativity

tolerably

vsalright

3 4.9

Good enough but not very good

is a bit more simply adequate, not stressing mediocrity

passably

vsalright

1 4.6

Good enough to do the job but not very good

is slightly more positive, meaning satisfactorily adequate rather than barely so

Antonyms

poorly

243 1.4

In a bad or unsuccessful way

Idioms

everything will be alright

3 2.1

Words that comfort someone by saying things will get better

How Satisfactory

excellent

∞ 1.0

good

∞ 1.0

alright

Informal

23 1.1

acceptable

392 2.5

passable

11 4.4

Surface Forms

alright positive

all right positive

Morphology

alright = all + right (semi-transparent) = all + right

Formed by compounding 'all' + 'right' where the combined meaning 'okay/satisfactory' is related to but shifted from the literal 'completely correct', so learners may not derive the exact pragmatic meaning.

Etymology

Alright comes from the phrase all right, where all means 'completely' and right means 'correct' or 'fine'. So if something goes alright, it was 'completely fine' or satisfactory.