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All-right

Definition: All-right

All-right

Adjective

1. (informal) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "all-right" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)

Synonyms: All-right

Synonyms: all right(p) (adj), all-right(a) (adj), fine (adj), hunky-dory (adj), o.k. (adj), ok (adj), okay (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: All-right

English words defined with "all-right": all rightfinehunky-doryo.k., okay. (references)

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Expressions: All-right

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "all-right": All-right-squire.

Ending with "all-right": Doing-all-right, well-if-you-don't-like-it-that's-all-right.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: All-right

Language Translations for "all-right"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

所有正确. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

모ë" 우측. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

all-rightay

   

Russian 

  

хорошо (all right, allright, alright, al-right, fair enough, good, lockfast, nicely, ok, okay, okey, well, well-done). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: All-right

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-l-l-r-t"

-1 letter: alright.

-2 letters: alight, aright, thalli, thrall, thrill.

-3 letters: airth, argil, garth, girth, glair, glial, grail, grill, grith, hilar, laigh, laith, lathi, light, right, thill, thirl, tragi, trail, trial, trill.

-4 letters: airt, alit, aril, gait, gall, ghat, gill, gilt, girl, girt, glia, grat, grit, hail, hair, hall, halt, harl, hart, hila, hill, hilt, lair, lari.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-l-l-r-t"
 

+1 letter: thralling.

 

+2 letters: ultralight.

 

+3 letters: enthralling, inthralling, lamplighter, ultralights.

 

+4 letters: hellgrammite, lamplighters, triglyphical.

 

+5 letters: calligraphist, candlelighter, hellgrammites, lethargically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: All-right


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 6C 2D 72 69 67 68 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01110010 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#114 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 006C 002D 0072 0069 0067 0068 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

357878158475737486

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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